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Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
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#233C'mon, we're all dying here.
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#234This is my favorite one:
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
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#235Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
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#236"The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on."
Also when I think I have problems in life, this helps a lot: "Things could be (much) worse." (I think it is from Stoicism)
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#237First 3 would be: - You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. (David Foster Wallace / Infinite Jest) - 90% of everything is crap (Sturgeon’s Law) - If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. (Shimon Peres)
Rigorous application of Sturgeon's law to all my information sources gave me a lot of peace of mind. Before that, I was always anxious about missing something important and my reading and learning list just kept piling up. After trimming things down, I am able to organize better and with proper prioritization, I can get more things done.
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#238IT Related : "Morty relax, it's just a bunch of ones and zeros out there, you're gonna be fiiiiiine"- Rick Sanchez in Dota 2
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#239If you can endure, endure. Stop complaining.
- Marcus Aurelius
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#2401. Love is the only truth, everything else is illusion
2. Ubi vera amicitia est, ibi idem velle, et idem nolle. Which roughly would be: A genuine friendship is found in same likes and same dislikes.