It's usually better to keep old resolutions than to make new ones.
It is more profitable to be a big fish in a small pond than a small undefined fish in a big pond.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.—Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
In reality, most people aren’t bad at languages. They’re bad, like me, at memorizing boring, zero-gratification tables that make DMV forms look sexy.
If you’ve got enough money to solve the problem, you don’t have the problem. In
If you’ve got enough money to solve the problem, you don’t have the problem. In the beginning of your career, you spend time to earn money. Once you hit your stride in any capacity, you should spend m...
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
If you learn the auxiliary verbs in your target language, plus the all-important to be, to have, to do, and to go, you can very quickly express any idea.18 Just see the following chart.
If you haven’t already accomplished at least one important task in the day, don’t spend the last business hour returning a DVD to avoid a $5 late charge. Get the important task done and pay the $5 fin...
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly. –Colonel David Hackworth Former United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. –Frank Wilczek American theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner
If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? You are good enough, just as you are. Breathe, and relax into the moment.
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. —Lao Tzu
I wish I would have known that there was no need to wait. I went to college. I went to law school. I worked in law and banking, though not for terribly long. But not until I started PayPal did I fully...
I don’t like work, says Marlow in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself. Marlow
I can wait → Being able to plan long-term, play the long game, and not misallocate your resources. I can fast → Being able to withstand difficulties and disaster. Training yourself to be uncommonly re...
How to Stay Motivated y Secrets of Closing the Sale, de Zig Ziglar:
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favorite failure of yours? There was a period when I was drinking at every show, and I was DJing a lot, maybe four n...
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski: This is a book that you have to hold, because there are parts of it where you need to turn it upside down to read it. There are certain pages where, you are readin...
Hold the standard. Ask for help. Fix it. Do whatever’s necessary. But don’t cheat.