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Ask HN: You favorite (not so popular) quote?
Mine is "Work Like Hell and Advertise" from Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It took me more than a year to realize its power.
- yesenadam 6y agoMy favourite spanish proverb: Si tu mujer quiere tirarte de un tejado, procura que sea uno bajo. If your wife wants to throw you off a roof, make sure it's a low roof.
- temny 6y agoYou want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. Robert M. Pirsig
- dontdieych 6y ago"There is 10 men. Then there is 11 common sense." don't remember who said :) It is translated from my language. So it may sound weird to native speaker.
- mindcrime 6y ago"Well stolen is half done". Purportedly an ancient Spanish proverb. In the context of where I heard it (the book Working Knowledge) it was described as corresponding to the idea that, when it comes to knowledge, usefulness is more important than originality. Or, in other words, something like the opposite of "Not invented here." https://books.google.com/books?id=-4-7vmCVG5cC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=Well+stolen+is+half+done+working+knowledge&source=bl&ots=mzoaV_5rG4&sig=ACfU3U3wL209ZvN0XrrZmnf8ObTKYKYDMQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiX2O6pp8fqAhXFgnIEHaTxDcAQ6AEwAHoECB8QAQ#v=onepage&q=Well%20stolen%20is%20half%20done%20working%20knowledge&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=-4-7vmCVG5cC&pg=PA53&lpg=P...
- duiker101 6y ago"Experience is what you get, when you don't get what you want" The only place I heard it is Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture"
- rolfeb 6y ago"A man's got to know his limitations"
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- thebrainscanner 6y ago"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." I don't remember where I read or heard this one.
- tuesday20 6y agoI am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde
- stratosgear 6y agoOne of these days I have to memorize this by heart: A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. Robert A. Heinlein
- danieka 6y agoI don't know why, but I was quite moved by this quote. Now off to write a sonnet.
- bediger4000 6y agoThe only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
- luhego 6y agoI like this quote because it helps me to cope with difficult problems. "Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom." from Jim Rohn
- blankton 6y agoPursue whats meaningful, not what is expedient. -Jordan Peterson Helps me to keep asking, what and how should i do and approach.
- aliswe 6y agoI have a few. Most are arabic, denoted with an asterisk. Capture knowledge with writing.* Say what you mean, mean what you say. "The excuse was worse than the crime"* He went (unnecessarily) far for pasture.* He has been drinking from a sick goat.* She accused me of her own sickness, and then went fast away.* Eat him for breakfast, before he eats you for lunch.* Eating lentils outside your home tastes better than eating chicken at home. (Pakistan) "The eye of a parrot", meaning cannot be trusted. (Pakistan) "Between the hammer and anvil", ie in a tough spot* There are so many more but these are the ones that come to mind rn.
- sethammons 6y agoIf you can’t do something about it, then don’t worry about it. If you can do something, then do, and don’t worry about it.
- haakonhr 6y ago"You shouldn't tolerate too well any injustice that does not target yourself" (freely translated from Norwegian) - Arnulf Øverland
- sethammons 6y agoMake the best choice given the information you have you never have to regret a decision.
- sethammons 6y agoHappiness is a choice
- scott31 6y ago"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt." – Rob Pike
- kosmodrom 6y agoWhen you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: 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… Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.
- mortivore 6y ago"by people that were no smarter than you" You say that, but I don't think you know me.
- umbs 6y ago"People buy expensive things to feel valuable. Lead a life where ordinary things gain value when you use it." Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Recalling from memory. May have errors. He said giving examples of Rev. Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi etc. We now have museums of them containing mundane things of their daily life.
- sethammons 6y agoThe harder I work, the more luck I have Luck is where opportunity meets preparedness
- StangeStars 6y agoHappiness is doing more and expecting less.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoI should count my blessings, but I like complaining better. - Beth Daranciang
- markus_zhang 6y ago>When we build, let us think that we build for ever. By John Ruskin Apparently not popular in modern capitalism.
- thorin 6y agoWhat one man can do, another man can do.
- Nikhiil 6y agoEverything will be okay In the end. If it not, it isn't the end.
- boltzmannbrain 6y agoBetter to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.- Sun Tzu
- croo 6y ago"Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do." - Jack London
- MH15 6y ago"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones." Marcus Aurelius
- dhruvkar 6y agoWe are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief. Advancing science has now discovered that all the known cases of biological extinction have been caused by overspecialization, whose concentration of only selected genes sacrifices general adaptability. Thus the specialist’s brief for pinpointing brevity is dubious. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual’s leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which in turn leads to war. -Buckminster Fuller
- cborenstein 6y ago"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." - Stephen Covey
- kleer001 6y agoThe line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn You have to regard yourself as a cloud, you see, because clouds never make mistakes...have you ever seen a misshapen cloud? Or a badly designed wave? Whatever you do it'll all come out in the wash some way or another. ~ Alan Watts
- lobsang 6y ago"Can't is the won't of the people who don't" remember getting told this as a kid by my mum or grandma. Didn't seem to stick though...
- notoriousarun 6y ago"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." - George Bernard Shaw