Proby Shandilya

Quotes

Lines I return to.

“Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.”
— Charlie Munger
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“You waste years by not being able to waste hours.”
— Amos Tversky
“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
— Rumi
“We've only taken a bucket of knowledge from a sea of ignorance.”
— Bill James
“Belief comes before ability.”
— David Senra
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
— Maya Angelou
“History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
— Often attributed to Mark Twain
“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.”
— Steve Jobs
“As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.”
— John Collison
“I couldn’t stand reaching for a small idea in my own discipline when there was a big idea right over the fence in somebody else’s discipline. So I just grabbed in all directions for the big ideas that would really work.”
— Charlie Munger