Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.

Alain de Botton

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.

Marcel Proust

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I can do anything but not everything.

Clarify the question. “What question are you trying to answer?”

McKeown – Essentialism

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To become good at anything you have to know how to apply basic principles. To become great at it, you have to know when to violate those principles.

Garry Kasparov

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Wayne Gretzky, the best hockey player of all time.

To achieve great things you need 1) a plan, and 2) not enough time.

Meg Jay

Work > Save > Invest

There is more to reading than just whispering words in our mind.

Zat Rana

What is the ultimate quantification of success? For me, it’s not how much time you spend doing what you love. It’s how little time you spend doing what you hate.

Casey Neistat

Don’t think. You already know what you have to do, and you know how to do it. What’s stopping you?

Tim Grover