maurolepore
1/11/2017 - 1:58 AM

quotes

quotes

Habits

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

-- Gandhi

If you think without writing, you only think you're thinking.

-- Leslie Lamport

We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.

--Quarry workder's creed

Everything that happens once may never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time

--Paulo Cohelo

If you want a behaviour to happen, make it easy; because human behave as electricity: we tend to follow the path of least resistance.

--Mauro Lepore

The self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

-– Thomas Szasz via https://goo.gl/cLzoHB

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

-- Aristotle

In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

--General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Optimism

Shitty years and shitty photos are alike. When things get worse they don't seem that bad.

--Mauro Lepore

There is no such a thing as failure, only feedback.

--Nicholar Boothman

Life is a sexualy transmited disease with 100% mortality

--Richard Pyle

Persuade

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

-- Gandhi

Learn

Si quieres Aprender, enseña

--Ciceron

Good ideas come from lots of ideas. Ideas and money accomulate only if you save them.

--Mauro Lepore

If you focus on immediate problems you become effective; When you go past, and disperse around the big picture, you become excellent.

--Mauro Lepore

Ultimate excellence is worth proximate ineffectivity.

--Mauro Lepore

Miscelaneas

New ideas and new lovers are alike: They arrive unexpectedly, and you only know they are good after you tried them.

--Mauro Lepore

The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of mangnitude bigger than to produce it

--Alberto Brandolini (cited here).

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

--Abraham Maslow

The chief enemy of good decisions is a lack of sufficient perspectives on a problem.

--Alain de Botton