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Ambrose Bierce on speaking in angry

vutran | June 5, 2020, 6:11 p.m.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

—Ambrose Bierce

Martin Luther King Jr on the day our lives end

vutran | June 2, 2020, 6:05 p.m.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

James Clear on habits

vutran | May 31, 2020, 10:47 a.m.

"If you have good habits, time becomes your ally. All you need is patience."

— James Clear

James Clear on seeing opportunities other miss

vutran | May 31, 2020, 10:47 a.m.

How to see opportunities others miss:

1) Study a totally different field, then return to the original problem. Apply insights from other domains.

2) Invert the problem. Try to achieve the opposite.

3) Talk to hyper-creative people. Their thinking will rub off.

— James Clear

James Clear on synthesizing ideas

vutran | May 31, 2020, 10:46 a.m.

"One form of originality is creation. Another form is synthesis.

People often focus so much on creating new ideas that they overlook the value of synthesizing ideas from different sources.

Innovation usually mean connecting previously unconnected concepts."

— James Clear

Carl Sagan, on the magic of books:

vutran | May 31, 2020, 10:45 a.m.

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

— Carl Sagan