Collection of quotes
Here’s a random collection of quotes that I’m saving
“People can admit when they’re logically wrong. They will never admit when they’re emotionally wrong.”
— Paul Portesi
“Making a mistake is a net positive if you learn more from it than it cost you.”
— Pedro Domingos
“An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity.”
— Terry A. Davis.
“Friends are better than money. Almost anything money can do, friends can do better. In so many ways a friend with a boat is better than owning a boat.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Don’t try to maximize happiness. Minimize misery, and you’ll be happy.”
— Paul Portesi
“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
— Pablo Picasso
“It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.”
— Nassim Taleb
“Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.”
— Stefan Molyneux
“Everybody on LinkedIn appears happy, smiling, wears a tie, and signals docility, conformity, and optimism while they rot inside.”
— Marin Zhelezov
“Whenever I see a woman who’s happy, she’s married. And whenever I see a man who’s happy, he’s single.”
— Larry David
“A taste of freedom can make you unemployable.”
— Naval
“Science has emerged as new religion & citing ‘studies’ has become like quoting religious verses.”
— Zachariah Brown
“Big companies and repeat entrepreneurs struggle to go from zero to one because they refuse to restart at zero.”
— Naval
“To gain status in the world, we do all we can to appear as if we had already gained it.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld
“Normies are nice in words but hateful in deeds. I am nice in deeds but for them I appear hateful in words. And they deserve it.”
— Marin Zhelezov
“To make mistakes is human. To own your mistakes is divine. Nothing elevates a person higher than quickly admitting and taking personal responsibility for the mistakes you make and then fixing them fairly. If you mess up, fess up. It’s astounding how powerful this ownership is.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Think of the process of inflation as a very tall ladder that has been set on fire from the bottom. If you don’t climb fast enough, you’ll eventually be consumed in flames.”
— Craig Rowland
“Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.”
— Nassim Taleb
“Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”
— Stefan Molyneux
“I would gladly give up my life for two brothers or eight cousins.”
— John Haldane (geneticist)
“The only part of you that hurts when you’re given the truth is the part that lives on lies.”
— Stefan Molyneux
“The same traits needed for huge success are the same traits that increase the odds of failure, so we should be careful praising winners or criticizing failures because they often made similar decisions with different degrees of luck.”
— Morgan Housel
“A populist is a smart person pretending to be dumb, and a liberal is a dumb person pretending to be smart.”
— Norwegian saying
“I have a sworn duty to my shareholders to maximize profit.”
— Martin Shkreli
“Some of this decade’s greatest heroes will never be known, and some of its most beloved people are basically shams.”
— Sam Bankman-Fried
“You know how they say no two snowflakes are ever alike? Well, I don’t think that’s true. I think a lot of snowflakes are alike… and I think a lot of people are alike too.”
— Patrick Bateman
“Entertaining characters are often deeply flawed.”
— Pixar training video on the art of storytelling
“The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.”
― Nassim Taleb
“When someone’s response is angrier than the question you asked warrants, they probably have something to hide. However, they may not only be hiding it from you…they may also be hiding it from themselves.”
— Neil Strauss
“The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. Only when you do something is it almost impossible to do it without mistakes. Therefore people who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior”
— Thomas Sowell
“There’s nothing on the internet anymore. It has become like TV. They deplatformed all the interesting people.”
— Roosh V
“Research shows it’s almost impossible to become a drug addict without having a prior history of childhood trauma”
— Bessel van der Kolk
“Why does it feel like the people most convinced they know the truth are the least likely to have actually found it?”
— Sharif Aly
“The truth fears no investigation.”
— Unkown
“Someone who has been employed for a while is giving you the evidence of submission”
— Nassim Taleb
“Scream for attention and I’ll cover my ears. Whisper and I will listen.”
— Pedro Domingos
“I still have launch PTSD from early Falcon days. My limbic system twists my guts into a knot as we get closer to launch.”
— Elon Musk
“Schools should include a class called Truth Is Hard, where u get bombarded with examples of confused eyewitnesses, incorrect public outrages, studies that failed to replicate, super convincing arguments that fall apart with one additional fact u didn’t expect, etc.”
— Aella
“The more secrets you have, the less happy you’re going to be.”
— Naval
“Learned helplessness is when you have failed, lost, or got defeated so many times that you stop even trying.”
— Marin Zhelezov
“When something has no prestige, the people who like it are more likely to have honest motives.”
— Paul Graham
“Many women think that if they put out too quickly, their partner won’t respect them. This is not the case. It’s not about waiting for a certain quantity of time before having sex, it’s about waiting for a certain quality of connection.”
― Neil Strauss
“I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.”
― Adolf Hitler
“Prescribing antidepressants without addressing the root cause is like spraying deodorant over a pile of shit.”
— Marin Zhelezov
“My whole adult life has been a search for quiet. I’ve had 3 different buildings soundproofed.”
— Paul Graham
“No school could teach being a great investor. It would be the most popular school with an impossibly high tuition.”
— Michael Burry
“Netflix could have been anything: personalized shampoo, custom dog food, one-of-a-kind baseball bats. I pitched all these ideas to my co-founder Reed Hastings on our daily commutes to work before we finally hit on the idea of video rental by mail.”
— Marc Randolph
“Though they may be composed of upstanding individuals, the structure of large organizations causes them to behave in ways that would be evil, if they were an individual person. So remember, whenever you’re dealing with a large organization, you’re also dealing with an evil one.”
— Paul Graham
“The education of today is humiliating. It produces an inferiority complex and artificially lowers the powers of man. Its very organization sets a limit to knowledge well below the natural level. It supplies men with crutches when they could run on swift feet.”
— Maria Montessori
“Privilege is all the problems you don’t have to worry about, that other people do.”
— Christie Smythe
“You’re only as smart as the smartest person in your community.”
— Jacob Lund Fisker
“I have always hated employment and the associated dependence on someone else’s arbitrary opinion, particularly when much of what’s done inside large corporations violates my sense of ethics.”
— Nassim Taleb
“Rich people like quiet because quiet is better for thinking, and thinking is how you get rich.”
— Paul Graham
“I was always ready to share, but before external success, nobody cared to listen.”
— Naval
“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
“Most people (and companies) need a near-death experience before they can really change.”
— Tony Fadell
“Lots of people were in the right place at the right time but failed because they were the wrong person.”
— Rob Henderson
“Looking at a crowd of strangers brings me almost as much awe as looking at deep field images of the universe. Every person in the crowd is a galaxy of memories, dreams, hopes, fears, longing, sadness, regret, love.”
— Tim Urban
“A relationship is about inventing your own language. You’ve got the jokes, you’ve got the songs, you have this anecdote that’s going to make you laugh three years later. It’s this language that you build. That’s what you mourn for when you’re losing someone you love. This language you’re not going to speak with anybody else.”
— Cèline Sciamma
“University is a good place to drink, make friends, and discuss books, nothing else. But the education one gets there is way too commoditised.”
— Nassim Taleb
“If you don’t have or want kids, I generally don’t care what you have to say about society. You’re not part of its continuation.”
— Stefan Molyneux
“Contrary to popular belief, it is the sexually busy Chads, not the sexually desperate and frustrated incels, who have the most misogynistic worldview.”
— Rolf Degen
“The selfish reason to be ethical is that it attracts the other ethical people in the network.”
— Naval
“Personally, I enjoy hanging out with a mix of young, old, foreign, uneducated, and weird people.”
— Jeremy Howard
“We’ve made life freer for individuals and more unstable for families. We’ve made life better for adults but worse for children.”
— David Brooks
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