Wednesday, July 22, 2020

I hate platitudes, but here are things to meditate on--

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. - R. Hamming

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. Buddha

A perfection of means, a confusion of aim,  seems to characterize our age A.Einst.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. - A. Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. - A. Lincoln

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. - A. Lincoln

Still a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest - The Boxer P. Simon & A. Garf


Oh, it's just so useful dealing with people you can trust and getting all the others the hell out of your life. It ought to be taught as a catechism. The trouble with doing it is, in an ordinary school, you'd immediately cast 40 percent of the people into oblivion.  

Nobody would even talk to them, and I'm not sure an egalitarian civilization is willing to be that tough. But wise people want to avoid other people who are just total rat poison, and there are a lot of them.

 --C. Munger

If you want to ruin your life, spend it trying to change your spouse. --Munger

Life doesn't offer you that many great opportunities.  It was just a few that enabled him to become prosperous. - Munger


None envied this man's success so fairly won and wisely used - Munger


“There is no good in anything until you finish it.” G.K


“It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose once you have fine clothes, fast horses, and beautiful women.” G.K


 “People conquered on different sides of the lake should be ruled on different sides of the lake.” G.K


"A leader has the right to be defeated, but never the right to be surprised." Napoleon

"Never interrupt the enemy when he is making a mistake."  Napoleon

“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”  Musashi

“You can only fight the way you practice.”  Musashi

“I choose to live by choice, not by chance.”  Musashi


“Whenever you think that some situation or some person is ruining your life, it's actually you who are ruining your life." Charlie Munger

 Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.” Musashi

“In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm.” Musashi

“Determine that today you will overcome yourself of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.” Musashi

“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength” Miyamoto Musashi

“Never accept an inferior position to anyone. It is the strongest spirit that wins, not the most expensive sword.” Miyamoto Musashi

"The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."Samuel Johnson 

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be rememberedCarlos Slim

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. Bill Gates

"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."--Steve Jobs

"Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential."-Winston Churchill

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