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Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#162What is measured, improves!
I've heard the variation "What receives attention, grows".
Not all attention yields positive results though, focusing on e.g. anxious feelings might increase the relative importance of those feelings.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#163These are the three mottos which I like the most.
- If you want to succeed increase the failure rate.
- When you stop learning, you stop growing.
- Don't Stop, Don't give up Keep Trying.
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#1642 + 2 = 4
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#165"You can only change yourself" (internet pop wisdom) “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
These days, people would settle for RSU or Stock Options.
+ free snacks and massages in the office
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#166Never hide from objective data
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#167When was the last time you really pushed yourself?
Another one: (I forget who this is about, but someone famous, apparently on their death bed said this):
What a wonderful life I have had. If only I had realized it earlier!
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#168Do it right, first fucking time.
People don't appreciates how hard it is to do things right in your first attempt.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#169I always loved Frank Herbert's quote about fear in Dune : “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” In fact, this quote resonates with me so much that I've…
If that quote resonates with you, then you've never felt true fear.
You could understand it as growing up. Only in your twens, your prefrontal cortex fully develops and can overrule the flight response of the amygdala. Most teens are thus dominated by their emotions like fear (or anger).
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#170I live life by the following words: "If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room"
I disagree so much with this popular motto that I have difficulty putting it into words. It reeks of egoism. Please, please replace it with: "If you are the smartest person in the room, teach until you no longer are."
It reeks of egoism.
Or sarcasm.