Eliminating stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance. It is remarkable how much long term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
-- Charlie Munger
Eliminating stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance. It is remarkable how much long term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
-- Charlie Munger
Comfort is the enemy of achievement.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
-- Jean Kerr
You cannot beat the system if you use all your power to hate it.
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ha mindig te mész elöl, akkor te nyersz.
-- palesz
A siker kulcsa az életben ugyanaz, mint mikor eltévedsz az erdőben. Jó ha gyorsan és sokat tudsz haladni, csak nem mindegy, hogy merre.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
-- Albert Einstein
God has no religion.
-- Ghandi
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.
-- Dalai Lama XIV
It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.
-- Elon Musk
Linguistic relativity [The theory] that the structure of a language affects the ways in which its speakers conceptualize their world […], or otherwise influences their cognitive processes.
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.
-- C. G. Jung
Segíts nekem, hogy magam tudjam csinálni!
-- Montessori phylosophy
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
-- The Buddha
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
-- Ghandi
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.
The road is the world. where everybody is going somewhere, trying to find something, and in fact basically trying to forget himself because it hurts. To remember oneself hurts, and the only thing that everybody is doing is to get engaged, concentrated – after money, after power, after this, after that. Become a painter, become a poet, become a musician, become someone and go on becoming. Don’t stop, because if you stop you become aware of your hurt; the wound starts opening. Son don’t give it a chance. This is the road.
-- Osho
Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now.
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease.
Vegetables: the kind of food that the real food eats.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
-- Galileo Galilei
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
-- Jimmy Breslin
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
-- Steve Jobs