Notetaking is the easiest and simplest way of externalizing our thinking. It requires no special skill, is private by default, and can be performed anytime and anywhere. Once our thoughts are outside our head, we can examine them, play with them, and make them better. It’s like a shortcut to realizing the full potential of the thoughts flowing through our minds.
– from Building a Second Brain book by Tiago Forte
Category: Quotes
If you give me a one-month …
If you give me a one-month headstart on anybody, they’ll never catch me. And if they need their weekends and vacations, so they can get their beauty rest and recover and maintain their little punk-ass “work-life balance,” then they will always be looking at my taillights.
– from Will book by Will Smith
Humans were always far better at …
Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely.
– from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century book by Yuval Noah Harari
Having a baby is like getting …
Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it’s what you want before you commit.
– from Eat, Pray, Love book by Elizabeth Gilbert
Bitcoin is a delicate dance between …
Bitcoin is a delicate dance between thousands of participants, all of which are acting selfishly, often with competing needs. It’s a truly free-market anarchist system with no one in particular in charge.
– from Inventing Bitcoin book by Yan Pritzker
Personally, if I were the government …
Personally, if I were the government, I’d want the priests to be bled once a month. Yes, every month an ample phlebotomy, in the interests of law and order and morality!
– from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
Anything free costs twice as much …
Anything free costs twice as much in long run or turns out worthless.
– from The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress book by Robert A. Heinlein
There’s such an unbelievable amount that …
There’s such an unbelievable amount that we’re all supposed to be able to cope with these days. You’re supposed to have a job, and somewhere to live, and a family, and you’re supposed to pay taxes and have clean underwear and remember the password to your damn Wi-Fi. Some of us never manage to get the chaos under control, so our lives simply carry on, the world spinning through space at two million miles an hour while we bounce about on its surface like so many lost socks.
– from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman
I haven’t made all A’s in …
I haven’t made all A’s in the art of livin, but I give a damn, and I’ll take an experienced C over an ignorant A any day.
– from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Those who deal in magic learn …
Those who deal in magic learn to see the world in a slightly different light than everyone else. You gain a perspective you had never considered before, a way of thinking that would just never have occurred to you without exposure to the things a wizard sees and hears.
– from Storm Front book by Jim Butcher