COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

12/12/2013


"The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future." -Mark Twain
"Never underestimate the willingness of people to believe in the most outlandish of things if it suits them." -James Montier



It is unforgivable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds. ~Christian Dior


 
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”― Mahatma Gandhi



 
"Obviousness is always the enemy to correctness." -Bertrand Russell


 Thought for today: he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent." --Proverbs 28: 20 


 
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." -Sherlock Holmes



"the life we receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it" - Seneca


 
"The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you." -Charlie Munger
"the life we receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it" - Seneca

 
"My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who turns fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, ....
"Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself." -"Puggy" Pearson
“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.” -Ben Franklin
"It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results." -Warren Buffett


"To convert a model into a quantitative formula is to destroy its usefulness as an instrument of thought." -J.M. Keynes


 
"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely." -William Osler

 
"Nothing endures but change." -Heraclitus


 "A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can." -Montaigne



“The greatest sign of an ill-regulated mind is to believe things because you wish them to be so.”


"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -Peter Drucker


“Investing is simple but not easy.” -Warren Buffett


 
He that can have patience can have what he will.
  

"Be for the most part silent, or speak merely what is necessary, and in few words." -Epictetus

 
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” –Stephen Hawking

 
 hat 'the future' (2000) would look like. This was the artist's idea of a Video-telegraph.
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... investor, and a complacent investor is someone who is about to get his head handed to him." -Michael Lewitt
 


"Investing is ultimately the art of learning to live with intellectual and emotional discomfort. A comfortable investor is a complacent....





“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” –Demosthenes

 
"Moonwalking With Einstein" good read...



"Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another follows and is gone."-Marcus Aurelius


"We cannot step twice into the same river." -Heraclitus


 
A preview of "David and Goliath" (out October 1st!) and a little bit of mischief. From Google Zeitgeist conference.



"Why Clever and Lazy People Make Great Leaders" from Farnam Street...


 
Words for teenagers



A chat with one of my academic heros, Adam Grant:



Thought provoking talk on practical psychology. “: A chat with one of my academic heros, Adam Grant: ”

 
“When you are finished changing, you're finished.” ― Benjamin
 
 
 





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