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Steve Jobs on being willing to fail

vutran | March 22, 2021, 7:25 p.m.

“Most people never pick up the phone. Most people never call and ask. And that's what separates sometimes the people who do things from those who just dream about them. You gotta act. You gotta be willing to fail. You gotta be willing to crash and burn. With people on the phone or starting a company, if you're afraid you'll fail, you won't get very far."

— Steve Jobs

Chief of stuff on commenting vs making

vutran | March 22, 2021, 7:23 p.m.

"The biggest change in my professional maturity came when I became Actually Responsible for things. ... I gained a lot of appreciation for people who make things, and lost a lot of tolerance for people who only pontificate. I found myself especially frustrated with my past self, whose default was to complain and/or comment, then wonder why things didn’t magically get better."

— Commenting Vs. Making, https://chiefofstuff.substack.com/p/commenting-vs-making

Napoleon Hill on cherishing our visions and dreams

vutran | March 19, 2021, 7:05 a.m.

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”

— Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill on nothing stand between us and our desires except for the lack of definite purpose

vutran | March 14, 2021, 8:19 p.m.

“We live in a world of overabundance of everything the heart could desire, with nothing standing between us and our desires, excepting lack of a definite purpose.”

— Napoleon Hill

Franz Brentano on how small errors compound

vutran | March 13, 2021, 10:01 a.m.

"What is at first small is often extremely large in the end. And so it happens that whoever deviates only a little from truth in the beginning is led farther and farther afield in the sequel, and to errors which are a thousand times as large."

— Franz Brentano on how small errors compound