I put these quotes here for various reasons such as personal taste, some of them obtain facts which seem to be not known to most people in my experience, or just because I find them funny.

"Students need to read books—whole books. In today's world, society is distracted, rushed, and unfocused. Educational systems that race through content only heighten the anxiety of our era. Taking the time to read a book carefully and at a slow pace is, in itself, a rebellious act against this culture.” - Brian Tolentino

“Ostinato rigore.” - Leonardo Da Vinci’s motto for life

“My goal is to learn something new, and I want to have fun doing it.” - William Phillips

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” - Virgina Woolf

What makes people successful is their degree of motivation. - Robert Greene

People don’t stop playing because they get old. They get old because they stop playing. - The Tag (movie)

Indeed, trying to express what you understand is not just a way to prove that you understand it, but a way to understand it better. - Paul Graham in https://www.paulgraham.com/do.html

Having new ideas is a lonely business. Only those who've tried it know how lonely. These people need your help. And if you help them, you'll probably learn something in the process. - Paul Graham in https://www.paulgraham.com/newideas.html#f4n

I think most people have one top idea in their mind at any given time. That's the idea their thoughts will drift toward when they're allowed to drift freely. And this idea will thus tend to get all the benefit of that type of thinking, while others are starved of it. Which means it's a disaster to let the wrong idea become the top one in your mind.

What made this clear to me was having an idea I didn't want as the top one in my mind for two long stretches.

One of the notable aspects of compound growth is that the furthest out years are the most important. - Sam Altman in https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

Trust the exponential, be patient, and be pleasantly surprised. - Sam Altman in https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

I am willing to take as much time as needed between projects to find my next thing. But I always want it to be a project that, if successful, will make the rest of my career look like a footnote. - Sam Altman in https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

….the more ambitious you are, the more the world will try to tear you down. - Sam Altman in https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

One of the most powerful lessons to learn is that you can figure out what to do in situations that seem to have no solution. - Sam Altman in https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

Remember that you are mostly looking for rate of improvement, and don’t overvalue experience or current accomplishment. - Sam Altman in https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

Fight bullshit and bureaucracy every time you see it and get other people to fight it too. Inaction is a particularly insidious type of risk. Get back up and keep going. Working with great people is one of the best parts of life.

When you take people like this and put them together with other ambitious people, they bloom like dying plants given water. - Paul Graham in https://paulgraham.com/determination.html

The perception of reality is more real than reality itself. - Billionaire Boys Club

Imagination should be used not to escape reality, but to create it. - Colin Wilson