My definition of wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions.
~ Naval Ravikant
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Wisdom →
Point of view →
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
~ Marshall McLuhan
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Childhood’s end →
When I was a child I wanted to be an architect, and now that I am an architect I would sometimes like to be a child again.
~ Federico Babina
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Flexibility →
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
~ Brian Greene
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Improvement →
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing—refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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Distraction →
The defenders of our freedom have failed to take into account our infinite appetite for distraction.
~ Aldous Huxley
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Lists →
To-do lists tend to be long; Success lists are short. One pulls you in all directions; The other aims you in a specific direction. One is a disorganized directory and the other is an organized directive. If a list isn’t built around success, then that’s not where it takes you. If your to-do list contains everything, then it’s probably taking you everywhere but where you really want to go.
~ Gary Keller
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Converse →
Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.
~ R. W. Emerson
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Stick →
Be like a postage stamp—stick to one thing until you get there.
~ Josh Billings
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Self →
I should not talk so much about myself if there was anybody else whom I knew so well.
~ H. D. Thoreau
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