If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.
Where is Good? In our reasoned choices. Where is Evil? In our reasoned choices. Where is that which is neither Good nor Evil? In the things outside of our own reasoned choice. —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES,...
Whenever you get an impression of some pleasure, as with any impression, guard yourself from being carried away by it, let it await your action, give yourself a pause. After that, bring to mind both t...
If you want to be steady, if you want clarity, proper judgment is the best way.
If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters—don’t wish to seem knowledgeable. And if some regard you as important, distrust yourself.
If your nerve holds, then nothing really did happen—our perception made sure it was nothing of consequence.
Whenever someone has done wrong by you, immediately consider what notion of good or evil they had in doing it. For when you see that, you’ll feel compassion, instead of astonishment or rage. For you m...
When personal gossip attains the dignity of print, and crowds the space available for matters of real interest to the community, future Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis wrote in the Harvard Law Re...
When I look up in the universe, I know I’m small, but I’m also big. I’m big because I’m connected to the universe and the universe is connected to me.
In this case, it’s half strategy, half engineering. The combination is going to be different in every situation, but the point is that it’s always outside-the-box, even outside-the-budget. Today, as a...
Vires acquirit eundo (We gather strength as we go).
In the way that a good wine must be aged, or that we let meat marinate for hours in spices and sauce, an idea must be given space to develop. Rushing into things eliminates that space.
Without the pestilence of panic or fear. Rockefeller
When children stick their hand down a narrow goody jar they can’t get their full fist out and start crying. Drop a few treats and you will get it out! Curb your desire—don’t set your heart on so many...
When people ask where we are, what we’re doing, how that situation is coming along, the answer should be clear: We’re working on it. We’re getting closer. When setbacks come, we respond by working twi...
In our own lives, how many problems seem to come from applying judgments to things we don’t control, as though there were a way they were supposed to be? How often do we see what we think is there or...
When you’re at your wit’s end, straining and straining with all your might, when people tell you you look like you might pop a vein . . . Take a step back, then go around the problem. Find some levera...
Coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder...
You must reclaim the ability to abstain because within it is your clarity and self-control.
When you have a goal, obstacles are actually teaching you how to get where you want to go—carving you a path. The Things which hurt, Benjamin Franklin wrote, instruct.
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