Quotes

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

Pablo Picasso

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

Harold Abelson

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."

Plato

"The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user."

C.A.R. Hoare

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

Leo Tolstoy

"It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."

Bruce Lee

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle

"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."

Plato

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

Socrates

"Anyone who has ever made anything of importance was disciplined."

Andrew Hendrixson

"Observe your hearts all times but especially under temptation. Temptation is a fire that brings up the scum of the vile heart: Do you carefully mark the first risings of corruption."

William Shakespeare

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

Ernest Hemingway

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius

"If not you, then who? If not now, then when?"

Hillel the Elder

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."

Henry David Thoreau

"Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want."

Naval Ravikant

"Peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion."

Naval Ravikant

"The three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order, but their importance is reverse."

Naval Ravikant

"Happiness is what's there when you remove the sense that something is missing in your life."

Naval Ravikant

"A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned."

Naval Ravikant

"Keep your identity small."

Paul Graham

"It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower."

Paul Graham

"The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself."

Paul Graham

"The more of a noob you are locally, the less of a noob you are globally."

Paul Graham

"If you say nothing, you will be criticized. If you say too much, you will be criticized. If you say just the right amount, you will still be criticized. There is no one in this world who escapes blame."

Buddha Bro