I love reading good thought provoking quotes. This is a running list of quotes that I like. This is a living document.
Building
Consumption is sometimes valuable, but creation moves you forward. You’ll learn more shipping a failure than you’ll learn from reading about a thousand successes. And you stand an excellent chance of shipping a success — people greatly overestimate how difficult this is. - Patrick McKenzie
The magic you’re looking for is in the work you’re avoiding.
Do it, or not do it, the time will pass anyway.
Life
We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
You can’t hate yourself into change. You need to love yourself into evolution.
When people time travel to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small. Few people think that they can radically change the future by doing something small in the present.
Farnam Street
Creating a separate section for Farnam Street because I love their content and there is going to be a bunch of quotes from them.
If someone looked at how you spent your time over the last year, would what they see as your priorities match what you see as your priorities? - FS
Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you’re smarter than you are.
In the long term, you can’t get better results than your consistency.
Not all progress is visible. Not all victories are celebrated. Just because others can’t see the results doesn’t mean you’re not getting better. Just because someone is ahead of you doesn’t mean you’re on the wrong trajectory. Just because no one notices doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter. Just because there is no applause doesn’t mean you didn’t score.
Sometimes success is going to the gym because you told yourself you would. Sometimes success is being kind even when someone doesn’t deserve it. Sometimes success is forgiving yourself for your mistakes. Sometimes success is avoiding regret. Sometimes success is a smile. Sometimes success is going to bed on time. Sometimes success is choosing integrity. Sometimes success is doing what you know you should do when you feel like doing it the least.