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Zitatsammlung 2022

When you feel bad about something, do The Work.

What choices can you make today that minimize the regret you'll feel as an 80-year-old looking back on your life? When you minimize future regret, you sleep well knowing you're maximizing fulfillment. Jeff Bezos

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. — Desmond Tutu

So what does it all mean? Myself and a lot of other songwriters have been influenced by these very same themes. And they can mean a lot of different things. If a song moves you, that’s all that’s important. I don’t have to know what a song means. I’ve written all kinds of things into my songs. And I’m not going to worry about it – what it all means.

When Odysseus in The Odyssey visits the famed warrior Achilles in the underworld – Achilles, who traded a long life full of peace and contentment for a short one full of honor and glory – tells Odysseus it was all a mistake. “I just died, that’s all.” There was no honor. No immortality. And that if he could, he would choose to go back and be a lowly slave to a tenant farmer on Earth rather than be what he is – a king in the land of the dead – that whatever his struggles of life were, they were preferable to being here in this dead place.

That’s what songs are too. Our songs are alive in the land of the living. Bob Dylan

Homer, who says, “Sing in me, oh Muse, and through me tell the story.”

Actions come from emotions. Emotions come from beliefs. So choose whatever belief makes you take the action you want. Picturing one future makes you quit. Picturing another future makes you jump out of bed, full of inspiration and action. Adopt beliefs just for fun, to try different ways of being. Don’t care whether something is true — only whether it works for you. Derek Sivers

Following a religion improves your daily actions, feels wonderful, and connects you to a worldwide community. These are better reasons than insisting it’s absolutely true. Same with philosophies, nationalities, norms, and concepts like loyalty, destiny, and identity. None of these are true. But they are useful. Adopt them for their purpose, while knowing they are make believe. Derek Sivers

Power-wielding, manipulation, terrorism, militarism, and lust for power do not come from having power, but from not having power.

If you are a true student, the thought will always end with a question mark. Byron Katie

Set the price first and then make the product worth that high price. Deliver within the first hours and the rest will take care of itself. Tim Ferriss

You are who you needed when you were younger. Your younger self is looking at who you are right now and wishes they had someone like you.

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

We must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose."

We want to perceive ourselves as winners, but successful investors are always focusing on their losses.’’ Peter Borish

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."

Tolkien wrote, “I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory’; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”

Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing."

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

Your career is the regular season, your WiFi biz and health is the playoffs. Don’t get them mixed up. BTB

In the end NO ONE is going to shoot 100%. Not even the #1 business manager in the world. Shooting 70%+ is the 0.1% of elite. BTB

When you got the message, you should hang up the telephone.

We all got about 4.000 weeks to live out lives. Since ancient Mesopotamia around 300.000 weeks passed. Oliver Burkeman

Socialists should love the poor instead of hating the rich. A.s.Neill

A plurality of thoughts and ideologies is good for a people. Bad examples are Han China, Khmer Rouge Cambodia, Nazi Germany, etc. You want ideas to fight it out peacefully and not to forbid a certain way of thinking.

Don't believe everything that you think. BJ Miller

People admire the effort, not the result.

"Three secrets to success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people."

Art Problem Solving? Many years ago, we wrote a post on how you can use Museums to solve your problems. You think about your problem before you enter the museum. After entering you stop, think about nothing and simply walk around slowly. After that just take a note of what art/images you are drawn to. Usually your answer is found there. BTB

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

Keep good company—that is, go to the Louvre." Artist Paul Cézann

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it."

One of my heroes, Abraham Lincoln, said in 1861: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

We need to get back to dreaming big and building bigger so we can inspire the next Arnold sitting in a classroom in some foreign country. People are cursed with growing old. Countries aren’t! Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sargent Shriver, said at a Yale university commencement speech, “Tear down this mirror. Tear down this mirror that makes you always look at yourself and you will be able to look beyond this mirror and see the millions of people that need your help.”

But what can all of you do to spread fitness if you don’t host festivals or have the resources to build something online? It’s simple. If you lift weights, make sure you also lift other people up. If someone looks intimidated in the gym, make them feel welcome. If someone is out of shape in the gym, don’t mock them - give them a high five for starting their fitness journey. If you have a friend who is down and isn’t taking care of themselves, offer to go on a walk with them to get them outside and moving. Volunteer to coach some youth sports. Realize the tremendous power you hold inside of you, no matter who you are. And then use your power to make the world a better place. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen ninety-nine, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and a penny, result misery"  - Mr Micawber “If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat” 

In the end, it matters less that you can fight. What you fight for is the real test."

The school evades the basic issue: All the Greek and math and history in the world will not help to make the home more loving, the child free from inhibitions, the parent free of neurosis. The future of Summerhill itself may be of little import. But the future of the Summerhill idea is of the greatest importance to humanity. New generations must be given the chance to grow in freedom. The bestowal of freedom is the bestowal of love. And only love can save the world. . Alexander Sutherland Neill

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.' William Blake

Matthew Ball defines the metaverse as follows: “A massively scaled and interoperable network of real-time virtual worlds that can be experienced synchronously and persistently by an effectively unlimited number of users with an individual sense of presence, and with continuity of data, such as identity, history, entitlements, objects, communications, and payments.”

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."

Eine Frau muss so teuer sein, dass du dir keine zweite leisten kannst.

Dionysus, himself: Three cups only do I propose for sensible men, one for health, the second for love and pleasure and the third for sleep; when this has been drunk up, wise guests make for home. The fourth cup is mine no longer, but belongs to hubris; the fifth to shouting; the sixth to revel; the seventh to black eyes; the eighth to summonses; the ninth to bile; and the tenth to madness and people tossing the furniture about.

In the end, the career game is no different than poker. The goal is to get as close as you can to the final table since all the earnings depend on how much responsibility you have. If you decide to quit your current position to jump to a new firm with a 10% raise you are likely a fool. The only reason to jump is as follows: 1) you know you won’t be promoted at your firm, 2) you will be given a hard written guarantee for income and 3) you will be given a promotion/major responsibility change. Many people make the foolish choice of jumping from firm to firm at the exact same responsibility level. If you were an associate for 2 years and keep jumping (as an associate) for the next 5-years it could very well be a dead career for you at that point. No one will take you seriously as you were in the same role for 7+ years and never got promoted once. In short, recessions = biggest chance to get promoted since people need to “step up and fill big shoes”. BTB