Abstract: Quotes

  • We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
    • Charles Kingsley
  • My tough times would be a dream to someone else.
    • Geno Smith
  • People don’t get burned out by working too hard. Burnout actually comes from failing and things not working. Momentum is really energizing and the lack of momentum is super draining.
    • Gretchen Rubin
  • I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
    • Richard P. Feynman
  • Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost
    • J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Action produces information. Just keep doing stuff.
    • Brian Armstrong
  • You only get a few shots at building your life’s work—the kind of work that makes a difference, that can’t happen without you.
    • South Park Commons
  • The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.
    • William Gibson
  • If you do not work on an important problem, it’s unlikely you’ll do important work.
    • Richard Hamming
  • Never argue with an idiot in public;a passerby won’t know the difference
    • Mark Twain
  • If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done
    • Thomas Jefferson
  • The days are long but the decades are short
    • Sam Altman
  • If You’re Going Through Hell, Keep Going
    • Winston Churchill
  • They Tried to Bury Us, They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds
    • Dinos Christianopoulos
  • Your condition is not your conclusion: failure is not final
    • Nathaniel Rainey
  • BoJack, when I was your age, I got sad. A lot. I didn’t come from such a great home, but one day, I started running, and that seemed to make sense, so then I just kept running. BoJack, when you get sad, you run straight ahead and you keep running forward, no matter what. There are people in your life who are gonna try to hold you back, slow you down, but you don’t let them. Don’t you stop running and don’t you ever look behind you. There’s nothing for you behind you. All that exists is what’s ahead.
    • Secretariat, BoJack Horseman
  • Anyone taking initiative will get criticized for moving too fast, because there’s always someone who wants to slow you down.
    • Mark Zuckerberg
  • I know, you’re probably thinking: I don’t know how to build a dam, or get a million people involved in anything. But let me tell you a secret: no one does when they begin. Ideas don’t come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started.
    • Mark Zuckerberg
  • If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas.
    • Linus Pauling
  • I just wondered how things were put together.
    • Claude Shannon
  • All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that.
    • Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire