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
Read More →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
Read More →A Hindi quote on being a good person
vutran | March 8, 2021, 8:51 a.m.
"Be a good person but don't waste time to prove it."
— Hindi quote on life
Chad Fowler on the lack of passion will always catch up to us and our work
vutran | March 8, 2021, 8:47 a.m.
"You can fake it for a while, but a lack of passion will catch up with you and your work."
— Chad Fowler in The Passionate Programmer
Atlas of emotion on emotion saturation
vutran | March 4, 2021, 12:33 p.m.
"When an emotion is triggered we are in the grip of that emotion, which limits our ability to think clearly and choose how we respond. As time passes, we gain some clarity and the ability to make a thoughtful choice. With awareness we can pause before we respond and choose a response that best serves our goals."
— Atlas of emotions on emotion saturation
Unknown on we being bias to our own personal history over how the world works
vutran | Feb. 23, 2021, 8:37 a.m.
“Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works. People believe what they’ve seen happen exponentially more than what they read about has happened to other people, if they read about other people at all. We’re all biased to our own personal history.”
— Ideas that Changed my Life
Unknown on the high price of mistrust
vutran | Feb. 20, 2021, 12:03 p.m.
“When we can’t trust each other, nothing works. As we participate in our communities less and less, we find it harder to feel other people are trustworthy. But if we can bring back a sense of trust in the people around us, the rewards are incredible.”
— The High Price of Mistrust
