Only Read the Fine Quotes #11
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.
— Captain Jean-Luc Picard, in Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode “Peak Performance”…
Thomas Briggs
Only Read the Fine Quotes #10
In the process of trying to attain a few moments of bliss, I experience something else: patience and humility, definitely, but also freedom. Freedom to pursue the futile. And the freedom to suck without caring is revelatory.
— Karen Rinaldi…
Only Read the Fine Quotes #9
It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
— Charlie Munger
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Only Read the Fine Quotes #8
Very smart people tend to be weird since they insist on thinking everything through for themselves.
— Naval Ravikant
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Only Read the Fine Quotes #7
Comparison is the thief of joy.
— Unknown
See here for an interesting discussion of the origins of this quote.…
Only Read the Fine Quotes #6
If you crush a cockroach, you’re a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you’re a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
For the record, I’m not sure I completely agree. Generally, right is right and wrong is …
Only Read the Fine Quotes #5
The great Western disease is, ‘I’ll be happy when… When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job. When I get the relationship,’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only …
Only Read the Fine Quotes #4
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
— Eleanor Roosevelt…
