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“Noone has yet succeeded in inventing a philosophy at once credible and self-consistent. Locke aimed at credibility, and achieved it at the expense of consistency. Most of the great philosophers have done the opposite. A philosophy which is not self-consistent cannot be wholly true, but a philosophy which is self-consistent can very well be wholly false. The most fruitful philosophies have contained glaring inconsistencies, but for that very reason have been partially true. There is no reason to suppose that a self-consistent system contains more truth than one which, like Locke’s, is more or less wrong.”
― Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy

“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.”
― Daniel H. Pink

“The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote.”   TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO”
― Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

“The only way to get people to do anything is to recognize their importance and thereby make them feel important. Every person's deepest lifelong desire is to be significant and to be recognized.”
― Keith Ferrazzi

“Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
― Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

“It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for 'realistic' goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek