Quotes

Quotes can be fantastic mental models. Here’s some of my favorites.

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy

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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Edward Abbey

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We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.

Anne-Marie Willis in Ontological Designing

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The first draft of anything is shit.

Ernest Hemingway

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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Albert Einstein

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To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

Barry Goldwater

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Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.

Lily Tomlin

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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

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In life as in dance, grace glides on blistered feet.

Alice Abrams

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The only sin is mediocrity.

Martha Graham

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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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If you know the way broadly you will see it in all things.

Miyamoto Musashi

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The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

Gandhi

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The way we do anything is the way we do everything.

Unknown

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That people do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

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When we learn to tolerate boredom, we find out who we really are.

Naomi Alderman

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All of humanity's problems stem from an inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Blaise Pascal

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The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude.

Arnold Glasow

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Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Malachy McCourt

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Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.

Baron de Montesquieu