{ "$schema": "./quotes-to-live-by.schema.json", "quotes": [ { "quote": "Do the thing and you will have the power.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "Create more, consume less.", "author": "", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "Move towards resistance and pain.", "author": "Robert Greene", "cite": "Mastery" }, { "quote": "To know what you want to draw, you must begin to draw.", "author": "Pablo Picasso", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "Speed of iteration always beats quality of iteration.", "author": "John Boyd", "cite": "http://gbds.us/clientuploads/downloads/A_Better_Path.pdf" }, { "quote": "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.", "author": "Bruce Lee", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "The ones who put themselves in the line as a way of life learn much faster than the ones that are protecting their egos.", "author": "Josh Waitzkin", "cite": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9sYyYUS54k" }, { "quote": "When in doubt, iterate faster.", "author": "Jeff Atwood", "cite": "https://blog.codinghorror.com/boyds-law-of-iteration/" }, { "quote": "Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.", "author": "Indira Gandhi", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "Do what matters the whole time and then stop.", "author": "Jack Conte", "cite": "https://youtu.be/5EuWCFCgy58" }, { "quote": "You can't choose what you are famous for.", "author": "Jack Conte", "cite": "https://youtu.be/5EuWCFCgy58" }, { "quote": "Real artists ship.", "author": "Steve Jobs", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "Whether you’re doing a bicep curl in a chilly gym or talking to world leaders, there are no shortcuts — everything is reps, reps, reps… No matter what you do in life, its either reps or mileage.", "author": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "cite": "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story (2012)" }, { "quote": "What you practice grows stronger.", "author": "Shauna Shapiro", "cite": "https://youtu.be/IeblJdB2-Vo" }, { "quote": "Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.", "author": "Warren Buffett", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "Addiction to distraction is the death of creative production.", "author": "Robin Sharma", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?", "author": "Jim Rohn", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "The best way to get that next position is to do an amazing job where you are.", "author": "Sherri Coale", "cite": "https://youtu.be/q7a5TIzOmeQ" }, { "quote": "We don't rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training.", "author": "Archilochus", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.", "author": "Amelia Earhart", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.", "author": "Bill Gates", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "Progress is not linear.", "author": "Maria Montessori", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.", "author": "Michael Jordan", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "The days are long but the decades are short", "author": "Sam Altman", "cite": "https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-are-short" }, { "quote": "If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "If you do not work on an important problem, it's unlikely you'll do important work.", "author": "Richard Hamming", "cite": "https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/you-and-your-research-by-richard-hamming" }, { "quote": "Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.", "author": "Robert Greene", "cite": "Mastery" }, { "quote": "Mastery is not about perfection. It's about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives.", "author": "George Leonard", "cite": "Mastery" }, { "quote": "If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "How did you accomplish that? Same as everything else. Gradually, then all at once.", "author": "James Clear", "cite": "https://twitter.com/JamesClear/status/1376201643482570753" }, { "quote": "If you never fail, you’re only trying things that are too easy and playing far below your level... If you can’t remember any time in the last six months when you failed, you aren’t trying to do difficult enough things.", "author": "Eliezer Yudkowsky", "cite": "Inadequate Equilibria" }, { "quote": "Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.", "author": "Jerzy Gregorek", "cite": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6jAC6XxAI" }, { "quote": "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.", "author": "Bruce Lee", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "The difference between an amateur and a champion is the champion is willing to push past the pain period.", "author": "Jim Kwik", "cite": "https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/371319" }, { "quote": "You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, nor be attached to inaction.", "author": "Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 47", "cite": "https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/2/verse/47" }, { "quote": "Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story to-morrow, and the next more dilatory, for indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you’re willing to practice, you can do.", "author": "Bob Ross", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "I had this very simple view: that the reason people who start out with ideals or aspirations don’t do what they dream of doing when they’re young is because they quit. I thought, well, I won’t quit.", "author": "Susan Sontag", "cite": "https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-16-tm-6833-story.html" }, { "quote": "All outstanding work, in art as well as in science, results from immense zeal applied to a great idea.", "author": "Santiago Ramón y Cajal", "cite": "Advice for a Young Investigator" }, { "quote": "Work at your current capacity for ten years and your skills will improve only slightly. Spend ten years trying, with great effort, to work beyond your current capacity, and your skills will improve a lot.", "author": "Linus Åkesson", "cite": "https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/index.php#" }, { "quote": "I went five straight years without missing a sinlge day of workout, 365 days a year, every single day I was in the water. When you miss one day, it takes two days to get back, so I was continuing to build on that.", "author": "Michael Phelps", "cite": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkqjHRN11NM" }, { "quote": "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.", "author": "Calvin Coolidge", "cite": "https://critter.blog/2021/11/30/nothing-in-the-world-can-take-the-place-of-persistence/" }, { "quote": "What shit sandwich do you want to eat? Because we all get served one eventually. And your favorite shit sandwich is your competitive advantage. By definition, anything that you’re willing to do (that you enjoy doing) that most people are not willing to do gives you a huge leg-up.", "author": "Mark Manson", "cite": "https://critter.blog/2021/01/18/consistency-beats-quality/" }, { "quote": "Consistently avoiding stupid mistakes is often way better than consistently trying to come up with new smart ideas.", "author": "Peter Bevelin", "cite": "Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger" }, { "quote": "Wesco continues to try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric. … 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. There must be some wisdom in the folk saying, `It’s the strong swimmers who drown.`", "author": "Charlie Munger", "cite": "https://fs.blog/avoiding-stupidity/" }, { "quote": "Stay on the bus. Stay on the fucking bus.", "author": "Arno Minkkinen", "cite": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/23/change-life-helsinki-bus-station-theory" }, { "quote": "If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.", "author": "Bruce Lee", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "You become what you think about all day long.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "The only thing that differentiates the top performers from the average performers, is how much they practiced.", "author": "John Ousterhout", "cite": "https://youtu.be/bmSAYlu0NcY" }, { "quote": "You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.", "author": "Chuck Palahniuk", "cite": "Fight Club" }, { "quote": "I do not like the idea of happiness — it is too momentary. I would say that I was always busy and interested in something — interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.", "author": "Georgia O'Keefe", "cite": "The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O’Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer" }, { "quote": "I don't care about optimism or pessimism. Fuck that we gonna get it done.", "author": "Elon Musk", "cite": "https://youtu.be/k8oMuLWiUzo" }, { "quote": "Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.", "author": "Marshall McLuhan", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "Most people never pick up the phone and call, most people never ask, and that's what separates sometimes the people who do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta act, and you gotta be willing to fail, you gotta be willing to crash and burn.", "author": "Steve Jobs", "cite": "https://youtu.be/kYfNvmF0Bqw" }, { "quote": "Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.", "author": "Aaron Swartz", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.", "author": "", "cite": "" }, { "quote": "You are not special. If you want to be good at anything you have to work really hard. And if you want to be the best in the world at something, you have to work harder than anyone else in the world.", "author": "Lex Fridman", "cite": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCA54RIkpTo" } ] }