“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.”

– Brene Brown

 

“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”

-Socrates

 

“The most pertinent questions are “Should this product be built?” and “Can we build a sustainable business around this set of products and services?”
– Eric Ries

 

“This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.”

-Eric Ries

 

“Honest criticism is hart to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.”

-Franklin Jones

 

“Observational studies can only show correlation: A and B both exist at the same time in one group. They cannot show cause and effect.”

-Tim Ferriss

 

“Any sort of perfection is fleeting, and if you try to hold on to it, if you try to control the uncontrollable, you destroy it. Better to relish the moment, then let go of it and move on.”

-Tucker Max

 

“Stuff like this is the reason people say fact is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. Reality doesn’t have to do shit.”

-Tucker Max

 

“It had the austere simplicity of fiction, rather than the tangled woof of fact.”

– Raymond Chandler

 

“ ‘What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?’

I pushed that question of my head to make room for a new question.

‘What’s worth doing even if I fail?’ “

– Brene Brown

 

“Clothes do not make the man, but you need the proper costume if you want to play the part.”

-Patrick Rothfuss

 

“It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.”

-Patrick Rothfuss

 

“Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”

– Patrick Rothfuss

 

“My old commander told me you should laugh every moment you live, for you’ll find it decidedly difficult afterward.”

– Joe Abercrombie

 

“Strength can only be tested against resistance and courage can only be tested through risk.”

– Jack Donovan

 

“The best an older man can hope for is to have his achievements remembered, and to be respected for his wisdom and consulted for his experience.”

-Jack Donovan