The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. —RICHARD FEYNMAN
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. —RICHARD FEYNMAN”
― Ego Is the Enemy
― Ego Is the Enemy
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”
― Essays, First Series
― Essays, First Series
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
― The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“One of my favorite things about Elon is his ability to make enormous decisions very quickly. That is still how it works today.”
― Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
― Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
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