notthevcode

“When a woman says about a man that he is intelligent, she often means handsome; when a man says about a woman that she is dumb, he always means attractive.
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What organized dating sites fail to understand is that people are far more interesting in what they don’t say about themselves.

For company, you often prefer those who find you interesting over those you find interesting.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength--400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well, it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.”
― Elon Musk

“You say it because you mean it and mean it because you say it.
The more nervous it makes you feel, the better, because it means you're being authentic and making yourself vulnerable.”
― Mark Manson, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

“Emerson once wrote, “What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say.”
― Mark Manson, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty