“Listening to uninformed people is worse than having no answers at all.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life—you have the opportunity to choose healthy and painful truth or unhealthy but comfortable delusion.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“Ericsson discovered that students in all groups had remarkably similar backgrounds and the only difference between them was the amount of practice time. By the age of 20, exceptional students had practiced on average 10,000 hours; good pianists and violinists 8,000 hours and those most likely to become music teachers 4,000 hours.”
― The Business Idea Factory: A World-Class System for Creating Successful Business Ideas
― The Business Idea Factory: A World-Class System for Creating Successful Business Ideas
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