Quotes

The following are quotes I came across and found meaningful. It's a shame sometimes I forget to save them.

If this list grows too big, I'll take the time to categorize them.

Also, please bear in mind that the fact that I list someone's quote here does not necessarily mean I fully endorse their values or beliefs.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood— Theodore Roosevelt

We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.— John Dewey

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.— Stephen Covey

The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times... The best moments usually occur if a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It is one thing to recognize that life is, by itself, meaningless. It is another thing entirely to accept this with resignation. The first fact does not entail the second any more than the fact that we lack wings prevents us from flying.— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Burnout is being overwhelmed by work. Boreout is being underwhelmed by work. Having too much responsibility is exhausting. Having too little is deflating. Idle time and pointless tasks undermine energy. Motivation depends on balancing what's meaningful with what's manageable.— Adam Grant

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.— Viktor Frankl

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.— Baruch Spinoza

In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.— Viktor Frankl

Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.— Viktor Frankl

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business.— Teresa Amabile

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.— General George Patton

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.— Seneca

Anybody can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.— Charles Mingus

If I look at the masses, I will never act. If I look at the individual, I will.— Mother Teresa

Good writing is like a windowpane.— George Orwell

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that the mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world. Whether we call the early replicators living or not, they were the ancestors of life; they were our founding fathers.— Richard Dawkins

One of the biggest mistakes you can make is letting other people tell you what success looks like.— Shane Parrish

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.— Bruce Lee

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs— William H. Calvin

What was an unexpected pleasure yesterday is what we feel entitled to today, and what won't be enough tomorrow.— Robert Sapolsky

We all belong to numerous hierarchies, but some of the most powerful are the ones in our heads based on our internal standards.— Robert Sapolsky

We judge ourselves by our internal motives and everyone else by their external actions.— Robert Sapolsky

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.— Lao Tzu

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.— Dorothy Parker

Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.— Daniel Kahneman

If you never learn how to deal with boredom, you will never learn how to enjoy peace and quiet. Because the way to peace passes through boredom.— Yuval Noah Harari

You'll never stumble upon the unexpected if you stick only to the familiar.— Ed Catmull

If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.— Ed Catmull

Boredom is not just boring. It can also be terrifying. It forces us to come face-to-face with bigger questions of meaning and purpose. But boredom is also an opportunity for discovery and invention. It creates the space necessary for a new thought to form, without which we're endlessly reacting to stimuli around us, rather than allowing ourselves to be within our lived experience.— Anna Lembke

She decided the lows were worth it to feel human.— Anna Lembke