Quotes

Below is a list of quotes that I’ve been keeping in google tasks of all places. I felt this might be a better place.

These are quotes I’ve been gathering and keeping for years to help me succinctly summarize my thoughts. This is an un ordered list for a reason.

  • Good news, bad news, who can say
  • Don’t self reject
  • You don’t need to feel good to get going; you need to get going to give your self a chance at feeling good.
  • A team that encourages and environment where you feel comfortable in failure, will enable you to thrive
  • leaders are right a lot
  • Every man is a hero of his own story.
  • I’m frequently quite silly – but I am almost always truthful.
  • Making useless things often leads to useful ones.
  • Did you win, or did you learn
  • “When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.” – Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison
  • the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone.
  • Do what you hate to do, but do it like you love it.
  • evidence should not determine beliefs but rather update them
  • parenting doesn’t make really much of a difference, but it matters.
  • You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with
  • Hate takes a lot of energy, and one should reserve it for when it is useful and not carry it around with you all the time.
  • By making the decision, there is more resources to devote to the actual effort of the execution.
  • Do work
  • Things that aren’t your fault can still be your responsibility.
  • When people’s actions contradict their talk, pay attention!
  • Don’t punish people for admitting they were wrong, you make it harder for them to improve.
  • Sturgeon’s law states that 90% of everything is crap. If you dislike poetry, or fine art, or anything, it’s possible you’ve only ever seen the crap. Go looking!
  • if you find that your behaviors and habits don’t seem to be paying off, try to focus on your current trajectory rather than your current results.
  • Some times my brain doesn’t work so brain
  • When the facts change, I change my mind
  • we succeed not because of our natural ability but because we have practiced intensively for countless hours.
  • You don’t believe data, you test data
  • rules & regulations are like vegetables, you might not like them but without them your crap don’t work.
  • Heroes don’t scale, teams do
  • It’s easy to make things hard but hard to make things easy
  • The opposite of play is depression
  • If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.
  • If you don’t know it, it’s because you aren’t interested in it.
  • Leaders become great not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
  • Thinking is also work
  • Hard work is the sum of daily efforts
  • Spend the afternoon, you can’t take it with you
  • The company will build whatever the CEO decides to measure
  • If you aren’t happy without it, you are not going to be happy with it.
  • The goal of media is to make every problem, your problem.
  • There’s no need to measure life in the things that end, as everything comes to an end sooner than later. Enjoy the present, prepare for the future, and reminisce on the good times.
  • Don’t say yes because you’re afraid to say no
  • Nobody in this world can tell me what to think, but everybody has a lesson to teach me.
  • Don’t judge your insides by other people’s outside.
  • Life is about not knowing and then doing something anyway
  • Helpful people don’t ask “how can I help?” They just help.
  • What’s something concrete you did to help someone today?
  • Nothing you can buy will make you feel as good as something that you create
  • Be the verb not the noun
  • Life is simpler when you opt to give people the benefit of the doubt, rather than assuming they are out to get you.
  • Inspiration not emulation
  • It’s good you’re not a natural, I can see your will
  • If you want to be better than most, do what most won’t do.
  • Some is more than none
  • The object is not to learn to mimic greatness, but to calibrate our internal meter for greatness.
  • Quality time is b*******, with the randomness of children you don’t know which time will be quality, so you spend as much time as you can with them.
  • Comparison is the thief of joy
  • Behavior first, thoughts and feelings follow