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Zitatsammlung 2026 - vorläufig

Three Laws of Remembering Your Life: Law 1 - Seek Novelty In the micro, never let a day go by where you don’t do something novel — no matter how small. It could be a new route to work, a conversation with a stranger, a book opened at random. In the macro, create at least one genuinely novel day every fourteen days — a day so different to your past thirteen days that future-you will be able to find it when you go looking for it. Law 2 - Optimise for the best story A great story is a designed series of events with a clear structure that taps into our emotions. That’s why we remember it. If your life feels like a great story, you’ll remember more of your life. A good rule of thumb when you’re making a decision is to ask yourself: What makes the better story? Law 3 - Marvel at the smallest details When you’re doing repetitive habitual events, squint and marvel at the small details so your brain slows down the perception of time. In Japanese culture, this idea is called Ichigo Ichie, that every moment, even when it feels repetitive, is unique and will never be repeated again. One of the best ways to notice the small marvellous details is to view today through the lens of your 85 year old self in a care home. What are the small details they’d notice if they could go back in time to this moment? Do not go gentle into the good night of forgetting your life. Rage, rage against the dying of the light by marvelling at the impermanent details.

If you seek novelty, create stories and marvel at the small details, when you see an older face staring back at you in the mirror, you won’t wonder: Where did the time go? You’ll say: “Oh, I’ve got so many stories to tell.”

you're not who you Think you are. But you are condemned to be Who you Think you are.

They don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care (about them). - Jessica Campbell (NHL-Coach)

Let people surprise you. Tell people what to do, not how. When you tell them how, you cap the upside at your own imagination. If you bet on people the world has overlooked, they'll spend their lives proving you right.

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children… to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded.”

Lao Tzu: “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”

There are some for whom inner peace can only be achieved by lifting heavy weights and reading heavy books.

„When students are taught, their minds expand and open. When students are indoctrinated, their minds narrow and close“ Tim Urban

We are all equal in souls. But we are not equal in the marketplace.

6 human controlling forces of your life: certainty, uncertainty, significance, love, growth, contribution. which two did you prioritize in your life? which two should you center to get to the next stage of your life?

Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

Indigo: “When you miss a turn, your GPS doesn’t judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You’ll make mistakes, but your destination doesn’t vanish. The route just changes.”

gabe k-s “There must be something like the opposite of suicide, whereby a person radically and abruptly decides to start living.”

Flaubert wrote, “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

Hell is the inability to love.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on engineering excellence: "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

Do a few things. Do them perfectly.

"Play for the name on the front of the jersey... and they’ll remember the name on the back." - Tony Adams

"As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance." - John Wheeler

"IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER, I’d like to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I’d have fewer imaginary ones. You see, I’m one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I’ve had my moments, and if I had it to do over again, I’d have more of them. In fact, I’d try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I’ve been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat, and a parachute. If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have. If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies." — Nadine Stair, 85 years old, Louisville, Kentucky

The Old Stoic

Riches I hold in light esteem, And Love I laugh to scorn; And lust of fame was but a dream, That vanished with the morn:

And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, "Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!"

Yes, as my swift days near their goal: ’Tis all that I implore; In life and death a chainless soul, With courage to endure.

Former UFC champion Georges St-Pierre on accepting fear: "When I was young, I thought that nervousness and fear would disappear over time. But I realized that not only does it not disappear, it gets even worse. The only thing that changed is, now I accept it. I know it’s going to be there. I know how to deal with it. Now, with experience, I know I’m gonna be scared when the fight is coming; I know I’m not going to sleep well the week of the fight, but I accept it. [Early on in my career] I would freak out, sleeping only four hours the night before a fight. I put more pressure on myself, because I thought I wouldn’t be able to perform my best because of lack of sleep. But now I know it’s normal. I accept it. It’s a suffering process that I have to go through before a fight. But it’s still as bad as it was; the only difference is that I accept it now."

“If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes defining the problem and 5 minutes solving it.” — Albert Einstein

Einstein’s quote is not merely clever; it reflects a fundamental truth about how complex work actually gets done. The hard part is rarely execution. The hard part is knowing what to execute—understanding the real goal, the real constraints, the real definition of success.

AI has become extraordinarily good at the five-minute part. It can synthesize, draft, calculate, and iterate at superhuman speed. But it cannot do the fifty-five-minute part. It cannot intuit missing context or infer priorities that were never supplied. That remains human work. This is why the phrase “Architect of Constraints” captures the human role better than “prompt engineer.” An architect does not merely describe a building; an architect makes decisions about what the building must do, what it cannot do, what materials are available, and what tradeoffs are acceptable. The human working with AI is doing the same thing: translating intent into a problem definition that the model can actually solve.

A prompt as simple as “Before I ask you to help with this, ask me ten questions that would help you understand what I actually need” can transform the interaction. The AI becomes a thinking partner rather than an answer machine, and the process of answering its questions forces you to articulate context you might never have made explicit.

Dalai Lama on being honest: "If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion, or jealousy."

Aaron Rodgers on haters: "You shouldn’t worry about criticism from someone that you would never ask advice from."

Human beings began to solve the ultimate problem, the giga problem, the problem of all problems: They solved the problem of how problems are solved. In 1934, Austrian philosopher Karl Popper published The Logic of Scientific Discovery. It contains the best explanation I’ve found of solving the problem of how problems are solved:

  1. Notice a problem - You notice something doesn’t work or conflicts with what you expected.

  2. Create a guess - An explanation that is specific and risky.

  3. Test your guess - Don’t look to confirm your guess, look to test it with:

    • A. Logic test - Look to spot contradictions.

    • B. Reality test - Run an experiment.

  4. Eliminate errors - If your guess fails the tests, improve it or discard it.

  5. Repeat - You’re back at step 1 making a new guess with the lessons learned. Or you’ve solved it, and moved onto a new bigger and better problem.
    I simplify Popper’s ideas into something I can loop in my head: Guess, Test, Correct. I call it the boom loop:
  6. Make a guess

  7. Run a test

  8. Correct errors

How do we love suffering? By letting it transform us. By letting it bind us to everyone else who suffers. And by following that thread until the Yes extends even to those who wounded us. Nietzsche wanted the Yes without the mercy. But the Yes has always been mercy.

Charlie Munger on patience: “The big money is not in the buying and the selling, but in the waiting."

Phil Jackson on our need to be part of something larger than ourselves: “With the Bulls I’ve learned that the most effective way to forge a winning team is to call on the players’ need to connect with something larger than themselves. Even for those who don’t consider themselves “spiritual” in a conventional sense, creating a successful team—whether it’s an NBA champion or a record-setting sales force—is essentially a spiritual act. It requires the individuals involved to surrender their self-interest for the greater good so that the whole adds up to more than the sum of the parts."

Vlad Tenev (Robinhood founder):
Success is creating dramatically more value for the world than you create for yourself. Imitation is the first stage of mastery. You earn the right to break the rules only after you've internalized them.

Esther Hicks on where to look: “If all you did was look for things to appreciate, you would live a joyously spectacular life.”

Paul Graham on writing: “1. When you write something intended to be read by an important person, go through it and cut every unnecessary word. 2. The reader of anything you publish is an important person.”

Playwright George Bernard Shaw on why we need unreasonable people: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

Shane Parrish:

Intensity makes for a good story. Consistency makes for good results.

Focus means choosing what doesn't matter. What you refuse to do determines what you can do.

How you talk about people when they're not around tells everyone what you'll say about them when they're not around.

What you say about yourself is forgotten. What you do for others compounds. Serve people well, and their word about you will travel further than yours ever could.

Prepare as if this is your only opportunity, and perform as if nothing can go wrong. Effort is a choice. If it's important to you, there is no excuse for someone putting in more effort than you.

If you burn money, people call you crazy. If you burn time, they call you busy. We treat money as valuable because it's quantifiable and time as disposable because it's not.

90% of success is not getting distracted.

So many advantages in life come from being willing to look like an idiot in the short term.

A good position allows you to think clearly rather than be forced by circumstances into a decision. One reason the best in the world make consistently good decisions is they rarely find themselves forced into a decision by circumstances. You don’t need to be smarter than others to outperform them if you can out-position them. Anyone looks like a genius when they’re in a good position, and even the smartest person looks like an idiot when they’re in a bad one.