Quotes

Here are some quotes I scribbled on a piece of paper to remember.

On Contentment

• Happiness is wanting what you have.

  Albert Schweitzer

• True happiness is the absence of the search for happiness.

  Peter Crone

On Action

• Focus on skills, resilience and a track record in shipping.

  Seth Godin

• A strategy enables you to act.

  Frans Johansson

• Have a deadline. A deadline prevents you from being perfect. So you have to be different. Don’t be the best. Be the only.

  Kevin Kelly

• Showmanship is the currency that buys the attention of your prospect.

  Sabri Suby

• Talent is the ability to be productive.

  Gabe Newell

On Understanding

• The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.

  Karl Popper

• We are all alike in our boundless ignorance.

  Karl Popper

• What I cannot build, I do not understand.

  Richard Feynman

• I only understand what I can implement.

  Joscha Bach

• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

• The best reading is focused reading, when you are trying to solve some kind of problem.

  Tyler Cowen

• Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

  Gretchen Rubin

• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

  Dorothy Parker

On Integrity

• If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonorable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonor remains.

  Musonius Rufus

• Success is not reaching our goals, success is living your values.

  Adam Grant

• What you risk reveals what you value.

  Jeanette Winterson

• The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

  George Bernard Shaw

• Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem – in my opinion – to characterize our age.

  Albert Einstein

On Courage

• Action is the antidote to despair.

  Joan Baez

• A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.

  John A. Shedd

• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

  G.K. Chesterton

• Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.

  Piet Hein

• Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.

  Michael Schumacher

On Constraints

• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

  G.K. Chesterton

• To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.

  Leonard Bernstein

• A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

  Paulo Coelho

• Design depends largely on constraints.

  Charles Eames

• The devil is in the defaults.

  Dave Morin