Live long enough, you realize some folks can be handed a problem and some tools, and they’ll sort it out. And I never think twice about hiring that sort of fellow.
– from Legends & Lattes book by Travis Baldree
Wrongness can be amusing. It keeps …
Wrongness can be amusing. It keeps life interesting. If we were all right all the time, where would that leave us?
– from The Way of Kings book by Brandon Sanderson
If I were to travel back …
If I were to travel back in time, I might urge the young man I was to set the books aside for a minute, open the windows, and let in some fresh air. I’d tell him to relax, go meet some people, and enjoy the pleasures that life reserves for those in their twenties.
– from A Promised Land book by Barack Obama
Anyone who says that money isn’t …
Anyone who says that money isn’t important obviously has not been without it for long.
– from Rich Dad’s CASHFLOW Quadrant book by Robert Kiyosaki
New York was populated by the …
New York was populated by the ambitious. It was often the only thing that everyone here had in common.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara
Maybe that’s the rite of passage …
Maybe that’s the rite of passage before you become a man – realizing your father doesn’t have life figured out any more than you do.
– from Ugly Love book by Colleen Hoover
Anything free costs twice as much …
Anything free costs twice as much in long run or turns out worthless.
– from The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress book by Robert A. Heinlein
A philosophy that embraced personal liberty …
A philosophy that embraced personal liberty, private property, and sound money was the only political philosophy worth championing.
– from End the Fed book by Ron Paul
Friendship, companionship: it so often defied …
Friendship, companionship: it so often defied logic, so often eluded the deserving, so often settled itself on the odd, the bad, the peculiar, the damaged.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara
Notetaking is the easiest and simplest …
Notetaking is the easiest and simplest way of externalizing our thinking. It requires no special skill, is private by default, and can be performed anytime and anywhere. Once our thoughts are outside our head, we can examine them, play with them, and make them better. It’s like a shortcut to realizing the full potential of the thoughts flowing through our minds.
– from Building a Second Brain book by Tiago Forte