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Recipe for greatness: expect much of yourself and little of others. Kevin Kelly

The most selfish thing in the world you can do is to be generous. Your generosity will return you ten fold. Kevin Kelly

Read a lot of history so you can understand how weird the past was; that way you will be comfortable with how weird the future will be. Kevin Kelly

The more persistent you are, the more chances you get to be lucky. Kevin Kelly

Very small things accumulate until they define your larger life. Carefully choose your everyday things. Kevin Kelly

Try to define yourself by what you love and embrace, rather than what you hate and refuse. Kevin Kelly

The best way to criticize something is to make something better. Kevin Kelly

Discover people whom you love doing "nothing" with, and do nothing with them on a regular basis. The longer you can maintain those relationships, the longer you will live. Kevin Kelly

The best way to learn something is to teach it. Not just because you understand it better after you explain it—but also because you remember it better after you retrieve it. Adam Grant

Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. Don't put limitations on yourself. Others will do that for you. James Cameron

If you want to change the future, start living as if you're already there. Lynn Conway

If you want someone to understand what is important to you, then you have to be able to understand what is important to him. Frank G. Wisner

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it. Mike Tyson

Lots of people try and change human nature but it's a real waste of time. You can't change human nature, but you can change tools, you can change techniques. And that way you can change civilization. Stewart Brand

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Andy Warhol

What's dangerous is not to evolve. Jeff Bezos

There is no limit on better. Talent is distributed unfairly, but there is no limit on how much we can improve what we start with. Kevin Kelly

Paths are made by walking. Franz Kafka

Wealth is made in extreme concentration. Dru Riley

Play long-term games. Compound returns. Dru Riley

You are what you do. Not what you say, not what you believe, not how you vote, but what you spend your time on. Kevin Kelly

Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes. Kevin Kelly

The test of beauty is not that it is perfect, but that it always attracts. Alice Wellington Rollins

In my whole life I've never been good at something I wasn't very interested in. It just doesn't work. There's no substitute for strong interest. Charlie Munger

Trust is the currency of all relationships. Mark Manson

For who is there who, shooting all day, will not sometimes hit the mark? Marcus Tullius Cicero

Extraordinary results come from repeating ordinary actions over an inordinate amount of time. Mark Manson

Simplicity is the end result of long, hard work, not the starting point. Frederick Maitland

Think about the little things you enjoy, then turn around and do them for someone else. James Clear

Modern luxury is the ability to think clearly, sleep deeply, move slowly, and live quietly in a world designed to prevent all four. Justin Welsh

If you want to find the truth, look for simplicity. Joseph Nguyen

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. Sheryl Sandberg

And those who were seen dancing, were thought to be crazy, by those who could not hear the music. Friedrich Nietzsche

It's not where you take things from. It's where you take them to. Kanye West

The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life. Naval Ravikant

If you do not actively choose a better way, then society, culture, and the general inertia of life will push you into a worse way. The default is distraction, not improvement. James Clear