Tomas Laurinavicius > Tomas's Quotes

“Slow is steady. Steady is smooth. Smooth is fast. Fast is deadly.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“Gradatim Ferociter, which translates to “Step by Step, Ferociously.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.”
― Amos Tversky

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
― Pablo Picasso

“All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there.”
― Charles T. Munger, Life Is Short And So Is This Book

“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“You just can't beat the person who never gives up.”
― Babe Ruth

“It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.”
― Amos Tversky

“I don't have talent, so I just get up earlier.”
― Henry Rollins

“Every time you're given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else. Your job throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“How does it make people look to talk about a product or idea? Most people would rather look smart than dumb, rich than poor, and cool than geeky. Just like the clothes we wear and the cars we drive, what we talk about influences how others see us. It’s social currency. Knowing about cool things—like a blender that can tear through an iPhone—makes people seem sharp and in the know. So to get people talking we need to craft messages that help them achieve these desired impressions. We need to find our inner remarkability and make people feel like insiders. We need to leverage game mechanics to give people ways to achieve and provide visible symbols of status that they can show to others.”
― Jonah Berger, Contagious: Why Things Catch On