Tim Siwula > Tim's Quotes

“You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world. Your word can never be as good as your bond, because your memory can never be as trustworthy as your honor.”
― Anonymous

“muscle cells take about fifteen years to completely renew themselves.”
― David Perlmutter, Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers

“Failure no longer will be my payment for struggle.”
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman In The World

“only a habit can subdue another habit. So,”
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman In The World

“I am the end product of thousands of years of evolution; therefore, I am better equipped in both mind and body than all the emperors and wise men who preceded me.”
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman In The World

“What is the one asset, the one benefit you have today over yesterday? The answer, of course, is experience.”
― Anthony Robbins, Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement

“Belief #6: Work is play.”
― Anthony Robbins, Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement

“Selling covered calls is similar to buying a house and renting it to someone else. But instead of renting your house, you are renting your stocks.”
― Michael Sincere, Understanding Options

“Tentative Model #1: The perceived universe is a mixture of the “real universe” and our own “Thinker” — proving its pet beliefs.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising

“A database is just a tool: how you use it is up to you.”
― Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

“Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“I am reminded of the apocryphal conversation between Confucius and Lao-tzu, when the former had been prating of universal love without the element of self. “What stuff!” cried Lao-tzu. “Does not universal love contradict itself? Is not your elimination of self a positive manifestation of self? Sir, if you would cause the world not to lose its source of nourishment: there is the universe, its regularity is unceasing; there are the sun and moon, their brightness is unceasing; there are the stars, their groupings never change; there are the birds and beasts, they flock together without varying; there are trees and shrubs, they grow upward without exception. Like these, accord with the Tao—with the way of”
― Alan W. Watts, Become What You Are

“We are really stuck with ourselves, and our attempts to reject or to accept are equally fruitless, for they fail to reach that inaccessible center of our selfhood which is trying to do the accepting or the rejecting.”
― Alan W. Watts, Become What You Are

“one of the hallmarks of mental health is the ability to hold conflicting feelings.”
― Jerry Colonna, Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up

“and still he’d see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void. .”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“Night City wasn’t there for its inhabitants, but as a deliberately unsupervised playground for technology itself.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”
― Spinoza

“I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.”
― Mother Teresa

“Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: 'This is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me'. Then he wonders why he's unhappy.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Inside its warship body, in narrow, unlit, unheated, hard-vacuum spaces, constructor drones struggled to install or complete sensors, displacers, field generators, shield disruptors, laserfields, plasma chambers, warhead magazines, maneuvering units, repair systems and the thousands of other major and minor components required to make a functional warship.”
― Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas

“If the master is not present in the house, all kinds of shady characters will take up residence there.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching