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Welcome to the Intro Limited Directory of Aphorisms.
Volume 1.
This week’s theme:
Meditations on hard work.
Please enjoy.
“Poor thinking habits keep most people poor. Most people work hard, but they don’t think hard.” - Jim Rohn
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” - William James
"Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening." - Angela Duckworth
“Don’t mistake activity for achievement.” - John Wooden
"Only in recent history has “working hard” signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura." - Nassim Taleb
“I didn't get interested in music. It was a gift from God.” - Nina Simone
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Everyone thinks that creativity and motivation come from tapping into your childhood issues and trauma. In fact they come from tapping into your childhood wonder and enthusiasm.” - Gena Gorlin
“You want to be paid for the quality of your thoughts.” - Naval
“Your brain is most intelligent when you don’t instruct it on what to do — something people who take showers discover on occasion.” - Nassim Taleb
“Beware of geeks bearing formulas.” - Warren Buffett
“Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.” - Bruce Lee
“If you need a degree to do it, it’s not going to make you wealthy.” - Naval
“Getting results doesn’t take that much time at all. It’s not getting results that takes up all the time.” - Dan Sullivan
“To build an amazing life, you need these joint competencies: 1) doing hard, unpleasant things, and 2) refusing to do hard, unpleasant things that aren’t worth doing. 1 without 2 is masochism; 2 without 1 is stasis. Marry the two, and there’s no limit to your bliss.” - Gena Gorlin
