Seven deadly sins of speaking: gossip, judging, negativity, complaining, excuses, exaggeration, and dogmatism.
Julian Treasure
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
Bertrand Russel
Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.
Sir Henry Royce
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.
Eisenhower
Hara Hachi Bu
Concept japonais : manger à 80% de sa faim.
Those three things – autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward – are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
Ta eph’hemin, ta ouk eph’hemin.
What is up to us, what is not up to us.
Greek saying.
Risk is what’s left over when you think you’ve thought of everything.
Morgane Housel – The Psychology of Money
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
Tony Robbins
Remember, you always have the power to have no opinion.
Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet
Chaos is our default state.
Dan Koe
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
Brian W. Aldiss
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.
Peter Pan
La simplicité est la sophistication suprême.
Léonard de Vinci
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Seneca
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
ipse dixit
Lui-même l’a dit.
When making decisions on the board, you generally need to make them in this order: Time, Space, Material.
Chess instructor.
You may not know in your mind where you are going, but you know it by doing.
Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb