A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. - John Gall

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. - James Baldwin

This thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford

Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer. - Rick Sanchez

If you want to master something, teach it. - Richard Feynman

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten. - Bill Gates

Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money. - Nat Friedman

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster. And treat those two impostors just the same - Rudyard Kipling

If I had more time, I would have written something shorter. - Pascal

If it's dumb and it works it's not dumb.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. - Michael Jordan

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky (Michael Scott)

Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Pressure is a privilege. - Billie Jean King

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Robert J. Hanlon

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is like choosing immobility as a means of transportation. - Yann Martel

You can just do things.

You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results. - James Clear

Perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing more to add, but when there's nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough. - Alain de Botton

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. - Theodore Roosevelt

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. - James Clear

I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will. - Warren Buffett

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I'll spend the first four sharpening the axe. - Abraham Lincoln

Try to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very smart. - Charlie Munger

The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. - James Clear

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Not writing is worse.

Startups are likely to fail when their strategy relies on multiple miracles. - [Elad Gil](https://blog.eladgil.com/p/startups-miracles)

Make something people want. - Paul Graham

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked. - Warren Buffett

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.

I've lost almost 300 games.

26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life.

And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. - Mark Twain

Take a simple idea, and take it seriously. - Charlie Munger

Do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. - C. S. Lewis

Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it. - Boccaccio

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou

The world has ended for me many times, yet the sun always rises the next day. - Nayyirah Waheed

Be here now. - Ram Dass

Once we know where we are, then the world becomes as narrow as a map. - Cixin Liu

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. - Paulo Coelho

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. - Abraham Lincoln

Do one thing every day that scares you. - Eleanor Roosevelt

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Not all those who wander are lost. - J. R. R. Tolkien

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. - C. S. Lewis

If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known. - Tim Kreider

When you give another human, your family or your business the fullness of your being at any moment, a little is enough. When you give them half of it, there is never enough. - Ram Dass

Committed decisions show up in two places: your calendar and your bank account. - Carole Hildebrand

Show me your calendar and I'll show you your future. - Ryan Leak

I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can't beat someone who's having fun. (no source)

You can control how you think, and therefore you can control who you are. With neuroplasticity on my side, I can literally become exactly who I want to be. - Eileen Gu