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Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#362Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is extremely astute.
Aristotle is nothing if not astute. If you’d like more, I highly recommend Nicomachean Ethics.
I wonder if he was silly and weird. :)
But the writings that survived the gauntlet of written history have done extremely well.
(thank you I will investigate!)
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#363Be the change you want to see in the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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#364"What I cannot create, I do not understand" -Richard Feynman
“Chi cerca dove non deve, trovarà qualcosa che non gli piace.” [“He who looks where he shouldn’t, will find something he will not like”.] [Sicilian proverb]
"Sew in wind, reap the whirlwind" Hosea 6
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#365Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin F.
Of course it depends on what one sees as essential
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#366“Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.” ―Stephen Covey
Character is destiny. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become. ― Heraclitus
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#367Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!
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#368"If you can pay it with money, it's cheap".
It means that if you can use money istead of family, health, sanity, etc... it is going to be easier for you.
It comes from the Valencia expression "Si es paga amb diners, barato!"
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#369You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
#370"slow is smooth, smooth is fast" - not sure where the origin is, perhaps military, but some of my friends/coworkers have laughed when I said this before. To me, personally, it has always turned out to be true. When you're working on something, don't rush it, take the time to do it right. This typically saves time in the long run because you tend to avoid rework.
This one has really been growing on me too. Right up there with the good old serenity prayer ("God grant me the strength...") and "a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor" and "once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it" for me.