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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If it can’t be used for evil, it’s not a superpower.”
― Nir Eyal, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“At the unexpected encounter with the final boss, Subaru felt as though his spirit was about to break. In terms of how mentally prepared he was to deal with either, meeting Elsa had much more of an impact on him than meeting Not-Satella. Subaru prayed that this was the last time he was going to have to see Elsa. “I”
― Tappei Nagatsuki, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Vol. 1

“Not only was she the type of person who was so kind she always ended up losing everything, she also was the type of person who wanted to have it all.”
― Tappei Nagatsuki, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Vol. 1

“Se sintió tan encumbrado que no alcanzó a darse cuenta de que la prensa no otorga triunfos, es voraz y utilitaria y, sobre todo, una feroz hoguera para la vanidad”
― Umberto Jara, Secretos de Túnel

“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“Great companies don't hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them.”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“The role of a leader is not to come up with all the great ideas. The role of a leader is to create an environment in which great ideas can happen.”
― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

“Fail often, fail fast,”
― Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

“Don't criticize unless you can do better. Try to understand how the faulty design might have occurred: try to determine how it could have been done otherwise.”
― Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly

“You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behaviours than from hearing surprising facts from the behaviour of others”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Being indistractable means striving to do what you say you will do. Indistractable people are as honest with themselves as they are with others. If you care about your work, your family, and your physical and mental well-being, you must learn how to become indistractable”
― Nir Eyal, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

“we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“when people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Edison is a great example of someone who used deliberate and cognitive creativity.”
― Susan M. Weinschenk, 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

“People seek out and pay attention to information and cues that confirm their beliefs. They don’t seek out—in fact, they ignore or even discount—information that doesn’t support what they already believe.”
― Susan M. Weinschenk, 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

“To be gullible is to not be in control, and the old brain - the part that is concerned with survival - always wants us to be in control.”
― Susan Weinschenk

“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very good reason to seek new knowledge, which opened up the scientific road to progress.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore, professore dottore Eco, what a library you have ! How many of these books have you read?” and the others - a very small minority - who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you don’t know as your financial means, mortgage rates and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menancingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Remember that you are a Black Swan.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“In this world, you should always be suspicious of the knowledge you derive from data.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Mediocristan is where we must endure the tyranny of the collective, the routine, the obvious, and the predicted; Extremistan is where we are subjected to the tyranny of the singular, the accidental, the unseen, and the unpredicted.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“It is true that a thousand days cannot prove you right, but one day can prove you to be wrong.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable