QUOTES

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This is a compilation of some of my favorite quotes, some well known, others less so, in no particular order.

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare
"Don't believe everything you think." - Thomas Kida and others
"Calm is contagious" and "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast." - Navy SEAL proverbs
"Optima dies prima fugit." - Virgil
"If it's not a 'Hell Yes!' then it's a 'no.'" - Derek Sivers
"Not hungry, thirsty. Not tired, bored." - My father Brian Lis
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." —Theodore Roosevelt, Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
"How are you the architect of the circumstances that you now encounter?" - Michael Beckwith
No muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without consequence, change without aesthetics, age without values, life without effort, water without thirst, food without nourishment, love without sacrifice, power without fairness, facts without rigor, statistics without logic, mathematics without proof, teaching without experience, politeness without warmth, values without embodiment, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, friendship without investment, virtue without risk, probability without ergodicity, wealth without exposure, complication without depth, fluency without content, decision without asymmetry, science without skepticism, religion without tolerance, and, most of all: nothing without skin in the game. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"Life is not about weathering the storm; it's about learning to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene
"He who hunts two rabbits catches neither." - Erasmus
"Bad grammar is something up with which I will not put." - Winston Churchill (possibly apocryphal)
"Original ideas don't come from trying to have original ideas. They come from trying to build or understand something slightly too difficult." - Paul Graham
"Pressure is a privilege." - Geno Auriemma
"Good." - Jocko Willink
"Nimium boni est, cui nihil est mali." - Quintus Ennius