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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by Balgair »

nikivi wrote: post #50

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again. - Steve Jobs And in similar vain: Are you moving one step in 20 directions or 20 steps in one direction? I colle…

I love the quotes and learnings section!

I get a vibe from it like 1001 Rules for my Unborn Son

https://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com/

EDIT: going back through this old blog, beware, it has not aged as well as one would have hoped.

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Post by webmaven »

whammywon wrote: post #312

"If you're going through Hell, keep going." I _think_ it was Winston Churchill who said it. But I like that it can apply to all kinds of situations. A stressful time a work? Hard times in personal relationships? Feeling depressed? The quote applies to any difficult situation I've ever found myself in.

> "If you're going through Hell, keep going."

> I _think_ it was Winston Churchill who said it.

Contrast with: "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."

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seriocomic wrote: post #264

Not one, but a couple I utter everyday (to my kids): 1. "You get what you get and you don't get upset" 2. "Don't worry about that which you cannot control" The last is the deepest one which I struggle the most with: "When you’re 20, you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60, you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place!" - attributed to Chu…

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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

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Post by webmaven »

snarfy wrote: post #280
iheartblocks wrote: post #52

"If you don't have time to do it right, make sure you have time to do it again" --My great-great grandfather

It's very much in the spirit of my coworker's complaint about the agile 'process' we followed. "We never have enough time to do it right, but we always have enough time to do it twice"

> It's very much in the spirit of my coworker's complaint about the agile 'process' we followed.

> "We never have enough time to do it right, but we always have enough time to do it twice"

Which is a totally valid tradeoff if "doing it right" will take three times as long.

Or, if after "doing it right", you're still going to have to do it over because you anticipated the wrong problems.

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