Kaizen

If you seek Peace, be still. If you seek Wisdom, be silent. If you seek Love, be yourself. - Bruce Lee

The wise one is not troubled by action or inactivity. He lives happily, doing whatever gets done. - Ashtavakra Gita

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts. - H. L. Mencken

Ego: I'm worried about what other people will think about me Reality: The only time other people will think about me is when they worry about my opinion of them - @george__mack

Change is frightening, especially for those in power - Unknown

Hard subjects train the mind. Hard exercise trains the body. Hard people train the heart. Hard times train the spirit. Do the hard things. - @EdLatimore

Move only when you have the advantage—you have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor. - Charlie Munger

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. - Erich Fromm

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. - René Descartes

Rigid ego can scuttle the ship before it gets clear of the harbor. I’ve watched much smarter people than myself, much braver people than myself, break their ships fatally on the rocks because they were too full of themselves to release control. - Jed McKenna

We often attribute to external causes what would have happened anyway, due to aging or time. For example: “going to college made me grow independent & responsible”. - @DellAnnaLuca

Our obstacle is that we live in an attention-deficit culture. We are bombarded with more and more information on television, radio, cell phones, video games, the Internet. The constant supply of stimulus has the potential to turn us into addicts. - Josh Waitzkin

You won't learn anything if you think you know everything already. - Richard Feynman

The quickest to be offended are the easiest to manipulate. - @ShaneAParrish

Evolution works by mutation and selection. Innovation works by trial and error. Science works by conjecture and criticism. Free markets work by entrepreneurship and risk. All truth-seeking systems work roughly the same way. - @naval

Sophistication, a certain brand of sophistication, also brings fragility to Black Swans: as societies gain in complexity, with more and more “cutting edge” sophistication in them, and more and more specialization, they become increasingly vulnerable to collapse. - @nntaleb

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. - Voltaire

The master said You must write what you see. But what I see does not move me. The master answered Change what you see. - Louise Glück

One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent. - Sri Aurobindo

It's really easy to get someone to respond to you: offer something they want Most refuse to think like this. If you only contact people when *you* have something good to offer *them*, you'll notice everyone says you're a great guy - @BowTiedBull