Quotes can be powerful mental models. Each one here has helped me make sense of the world in an important way. Spend a moment with one or two that resonates with you.
The first draft of anything is shit.
Earnest Hemingway
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.
Anne-Marie Willis in Ontological Designing
The way we do anything is the way we do everything.
Unknown
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
Edward Abbey
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein
Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
Gandhi
Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.
Lily Tomlin
If you know the way broadly you will see it in all things.
Miyamoto Musashi
The only sin is mediocrity.
Martha Graham
In life as in dance, grace glides on blistered feet.
Alice Abrams
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
To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
Barry Goldwater
All of humanity's problems stem from an inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
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