Quotes can be fantastic mental models. Hereβs some of my favorites.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
Edward Abbey
We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.
Anne-Marie Willis inΒ Ontological Designing
Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first draft of anything is shit.
Ernest Hemingway
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein
To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
Barry Goldwater
Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.
Lily Tomlin
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
In life as in dance, grace glides on blistered feet.
Alice Abrams
The only sin is mediocrity.
Martha Graham
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
If you know the way broadly you will see it in all things.
Miyamoto Musashi
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
Gandhi
The way we do anything is the way we do everything.
Unknown
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
When we learn to tolerate boredom, we find out who we really are.
Naomi Alderman
All of humanity's problems stem from an inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal
The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude.
Arnold Glasow
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Malachy McCourt
Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.
Baron de Montesquieu