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  • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Rationality is not a character trait, it’s a process. If you fool yourself into believing that you’re rational by default, you open yourself up to the most irrational thinking.

    References
  • OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 hours ago

    Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.

    Being neurodivergent, this is the most efficient way to mentally deal with change (i fucking hate change even though its the only constant in life)

  • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 hours ago

    “Give everything you can, but never anything you need.”

    I try to live by this. I give away every extra dollar, and help people every chance I get

  • silasmariner@programming.dev
    3·
    6 hours ago

    We must imagine Sisyphus as happy

    I won’t break it down, plenty of people have done that already. It’s one of those sorta zen points that’s both almost trivial and very difficult to understand

  • the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 hours ago

    If idioms count then my favorite is this one:

    “I see,” said the blind man to his deaf wife over the phone.

    My father would always say that to me growing up if i took too long to explain something 😅

  • Dry_Monk@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 hours ago

    “The impediment to action advances action. What’s in the way becomes the way.”

    This is basically saying that anything that gets in the way of you solving a problem becomes the new problem to solve.

    “The tool works at both ends.”

    This is about skill building and practice. Making cool stuff improves you as a result.

    Something I like about each is that they work in reverse. No impediment in your way? You’re probably not going to have very focused forward movement. No need to use tools (literally or metaphorically)? You won’t become more skilled.

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough” […]

      I think some other quotes similar to this are:

      • There is never a good time to do anything. [1]

      • Perfection is lots of little things done well.

        [Marco Pierre White] [2]

      References
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  • whyrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    12 hours ago

    Two of my favorite are from Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

    “What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

    “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” (Also attributed as a Native American proverb)

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    13 hours ago

    If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

    This quote from LBJ centres me. Its been the conservative tactic for literally decades, from African Americans, to lgbtq+, to immigrants; it’s always been the same grift:

    • Choose your marginalised group-du-jour.
    • Convince a whole lot of stupid people that that group is the cause of all their problems.
    • Profit.

    Its honestly astonishing how blatant it really is.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    6·
    13 hours ago

    I’ve always loved the dichotomy between “I think, therefore I am” versus “To be, is to be perceived”. Also, “life is what happens to you while you are making other plans”.

  • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    20 hours ago

    At a certain level of self-awareness, it will inevitably happen regularly that one finds oneself repulsive.

    I forget who said it.