Ask HN: What are some life changing quotes?

Another one I like:

"A Founder spends a few years doing what most people won't, so they can spend the rest of their life doing what most people can't."

(While it glosses over actual business success rates, and the "lazy, low risk" route to FIRE for many employed people, it's still motivating to me.)

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

C may let you shoot yourself in the foot, C++ may let you blow your whole leg off, but only CRISPR will let you turn it back into a tentacle.

There is no theoretical difference between theory and practice. There is a difference in practice.

Every great cause starts off as a movement, turns into a business, and ends up a racket.

A fancy vocabulary doesn't make you scary, it just means you have a thesaurus.

The art of diplomacy is to let other people have your way.

If you cannot say what you mean, you never mean what you say.

God created men. Colonel Colt made them equal.

LinkedIn is just like Tinder but the other way around. Hundreds of hot girls contact IT nerds and get ignored.

I’m a great believer in luck. I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.

  The past is never dead. 
  It's not even past.
    -- William Faulkner

  The future is already here. 
  It's just not evenly distributed.
    -- William Gibson

  The empire never ended.
    -- Phillip K. Dick

Like one of those retard pills in medication. The active component is just one problem. Making it reach a destination where it's able to unfold the effect is another.

People like Tony Robins (or quotes for that matter) don't hold extraordinary wisdom, but they have found a way to make them emotionally relevant for a large group of people (and that's really the important part). That's what makes a guru, quotes, tutorials, etc. successful. Much like those calendar quotes reach another kind of people. Everything's allowed.

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I just bought Austin Kleons trilogy and it's stuffed with quotes. Let me open a random page for you...

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard (in Kleons 'Keep Going')

"Share your dots, but don't connect them." - Austin Kleon (in 'Steal Like An Artist')

"Whatever we say, we're always talking about ourselves." - Alison Bechdel (in Kleons 'Show Your Work')

“be kind, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”

Often mis attributed to Plato