“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Oscar Wilde quotes
“The question, I’ve come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed. It’s easy and common to learn something—-through an argument or fact, image or experience—-and feel compelled to make different choices. But for how long? Change is inspiring, but only rarely durable.”
Jonathan Safran Foer: Quitting Meat: A Process Of Change
“Imagination is the most powerful tool for preventing complexity from growing.”
Pomodoro Techniques
“Exercise, rest, study and pleasure.”
TOSHITSUGU TAKAMATSU (1889 - 1972) AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
“Don’t let fear be the cause of your choices.”
“Sometimes you have to rely on being motivated after.”
Why Motivation Doesn’t Really Matter | Zen Habits
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
Confucius
“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.”
Chinese Proverb.
“War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.”
Friedrich Nietzsche