Richard Heart > Quotes

“You’re only awake 16 hours a day. Now subtract out all the hours where you have to be doing something. How many hours are left? Three? This is your free time. Choose wisely how you spend these precious few hours.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Learn the language you need.

Learn the language of business (accounting)
Learn the language of scalability (programming)
Learn the language of entrepreneurship (influence)”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“What you discover is that if you want to live properly in this world, you need to be a little greedy.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“The guy that pays you decides what you do with your time.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“The best thing you can do is delay gratification.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“You do can something, right? We are at the time where we do not have to pretend that there’s nothing that can be done. There are things that can be done, and as Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel said, they’re underfunded. No one cares about them. Poor Aubrey de Grey has been giving talks on TED and at Google, and no one believes. The listeners are just thinking, “Eh, crazy guy. Death is cool.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Focus on something that someone else actually cares about that you can solve a problem for.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Never give out personal information on an inbound call, you don’t really know to whom you’re speaking.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“When you diet and exercise, you only help yourself; nothing you’re doing there is helping anyone else. When you build medical technology you not only help yourself, you help all the humans that will ever exist in the future.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Chew and swallow before you take your next bite.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“If you want to say great things, you need to read and hear great things.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Let’s just get some diversity in all the other countries too, let’s just open up all the borders, force every country to reflect the makeup of the world, and watch it all fall apart and split up again.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Analysis paralysis is real, if they don’t know what they’re buying is the right thing you offer, they won’t buy. This is why more products can be worse. Just like more payment methods can be worse.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“It is rumored that Francis Crick was on LSD when he discovered DNA. If one had to bet their life, one would be likely to tell you that the vast majority of discoveries have been made by people not on LSD... It’s probably unlikely that you would happen to run into a cult of really drugged up, “tripping-face” dudes crushing it in the business world or crushing it in the stock market etc.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Have one drawer for casual wear, one drawer for workout clothes, one drawer or section of the closet for going out clothes, and one for work clothes.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Try to mess around in the virtual world of games and drugs to the minimum you need to, or know the cost.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Everyone uses soap, but it’s a rather new human invention, and as much as we use it, we probably need to cancel out the wiping out of our natural oils with some lotions.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“If you think men and women are the same, you either don’t know much about men, or woman, or both.”
― Richard Heart

“There appears to be many advertisements for diversity and quotas and report cards out there. Why are you classifying by race? Why don’t you classify by stupid? How many stupid people have you hired? Or how many rage-filled people? Or how many depressed people? Or how many people who always say the wrong thing? Why are you using race to select between people? Doesn’t that make you a racist? Isn’t there some more important categorization that you can use for humans? You’re better off dividing people by profession, or by their free time activities.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Let your brain do what juices it, what gives it passion, what engages it, what is at the limit of its understanding.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Learning what everyone else does, thus by definition of value, the least scarce knowledge is therefore the least valuable.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“If equality exists, why is there a Michelin star rating? Why do people use brands? Why do they Choose cheerios instead of tasteless oats? Why do they listen to different genres of music? Equality doesn’t exist, competition exists. Competition is where items or aspects of life that need refurbishing get demolished by the thing that’s good. Natural, and unnatural selection at its finest.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“A few centuries ago, kids were not given names until they reached about five years old.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Women stress-test their relationships for excellence, the same way that government stress-test banks and that factories stress-test backup generators. You need to see what things do when the shit hits the fan, so that when it actually hits the fan, you’re safe.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“It’s much easier to let yourself down than it is to let your friends/employees/coaches down. They will hold you to a tighter schedule.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Don’t use the same word twice in the same sentence, or in near proximity unless there’s a really compelling reason to do so.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Aesthetic is so very important now, to the point where women spend literally hours a day every day reapplying the lie that is the fake hair, fake make up, fake lotion, fake tan, fake everything. Everything’s fake, because a competitive market exists, and everyone out there is fake, so you need to be fake too in order to keep up.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Scivivors are people who are at such a high level of fulfillment that they have the time, money, and desire to invest in their families’ survival. They leverage science to survive.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Knowledge without action is like a car with an empty gas tank.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Power is when you can take the elevator into a department store’s special floor, flash your Black Card, and get free premium quality cappuccino that people without the Black Card can’t even buy because they don’t accept money there. They don’t accept money. All they accept is power. Power is currency. Power is exclusivity.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive