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“Why Trying Too Hard Can Sometimes Be Part of the Problem”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“Focused problem solving in math and science is often more effortful than focused-mode thinking involving language and people.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“If you are trying to understand or figure out something new, your best bet is to turn off your precision-focused thinking and turn on your “big picture” diffuse mode,”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“Attempting to recall the material you are trying to learn—retrieval practice—is far more effective than simply rereading the material.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“THE LAW OF SERENDIPITY Remember, Lady Luck favors the one who tries. So don’t feel overwhelmed with everything you need to learn about a new subject. Instead, focus on nailing down a few key ideas. You’ll be surprised at how much that simple framework can help.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“Over the past decades, students who have blindly followed their passion, without rational analysis of whether their choice of career truly was wise, have been more unhappy with their job choices than those who coupled passion with rationality.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“If you don’t make a point of repeating what you want to remember, your “metabolic vampires” can suck away the neural pattern related to that memory before it can strengthen and solidify.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.”
― Alice Walker The Color Purple

“Young womens no good these days, he say. Got they legs open to every Tom, Dick and Harry.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“therefore, who acquires such a State, if he mean to keep it, must see to two things; first, that the blood of the ancient line of Princes be destroyed; second, that no change be made in respect of laws or taxes; for in this way the newly acquired State speedily becomes incorporated with the hereditary.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“There are four patterns of invocation in JavaScript: the method invocation pattern, the function invocation pattern, the constructor invocation pattern, and the apply invocation pattern.”
― Douglas Crockford, JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

“The human race is where everyone is under control by other people, no one controls his own life; the best thing you can ever do is to choose somebody who controls your life with good motive.”
― Aiden Mccoy, Manipulation Tactics: Discover How To Exploit the Dark Technique of Manipulation & Learn How To Use It In Your Favor

“Her dimples are a never-ending game, her smile is always changing, I could watch her forever.”
― Mathias Malzieu, The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

“If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you’ll get terribly bored, you know … I can’t think of anything more fun than being impulsive.”
― Mathias Malzieu, The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

“I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real journey on earth.”
― Mathias Malzieu, The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

“We don’t talk, we just catch fire instead.”
― Mathias Malzieu, The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”
― Antoine de Saint - Exupery

“Closure is when a function is able to remember and access its lexical scope even when that function is executing outside its lexical scope.”
― Kyle Simpson, You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures

“A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“On the field of the Self stand a knight and a dragon.   You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.”
― Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

“Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.”
― Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

“Ignorance and arrogance are the artist and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be—and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.”
― Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

“Don’t think. Act. We can always revise and revisit once we’ve acted. But we can accomplish nothing until we act.”
― Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

“Figure out where you want to go; then work backwards from there.”
― Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

“I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat”
― Eduardo Galeano