Quotes About Attitude

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them. You want to be the fire and wish for the wind. This summarizes this author's nonmeek attitude to randomness and uncertainty.

But the worst touristification is the life we moderns have to lead in captivity, during our leisure hours: Friday night opera, scheduled parties, scheduled laughs. Again, golden jail. This goal-driven attitude hurts deeply inside my existential self.

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.

whenever I hear work ethics I interpret inefficient mediocrity).

Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

Mother Nature has given us some defense mechanisms: as in Aesop's fable, one of these is our ability to consider that the grapes we cannot (or did not) reach are sour. But an aggressively stoic prior disdain and rejection of the grapes is even more rewarding. Be aggressive; be the one to resign, if you have the guts.

Most of what they call humility is successfully disguised arrogance.

but a problem in our minds, stemming from the way we look at it.

But the worse touristification is the life we moderns have to lead in captivity, during our leisure hours: Friday night opera, scheduled parties, scheduled laughs. Again, golden jail. This "goal-driven" attitude hurts deeply inside my existential self.

He would be forced to act as a satisficer instead of a maximizer

For those readers who wonder about the difference between Buddhism and Stoicism, I have a simple answer. A Stoic is a Buddhist with attitude, one who says "f*** you" to fate.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended.

I discovered that it is much more effective to act like a nice guy and be "reasonable

I believe that risk aversion does not exist: what we observe is, simply, a residual of ergodicity. People are, simply, trying to avoid financial suicide and take a certain attitude to tail risks.

good news is good news first; how good matters rather little.

Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news.

Stoicism makes you desire the challenge of a calamity.

Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura.

Yo entraba en el comedor aún con mala cara por el jersey de Neuberg, y mi madre, al verme entrar sombría y enfadada, decía: «¡Aquí está María Temporal!».

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short," she said calmly. "You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.

What we make an effort to learn and what we achieve is based, at least in part, on what we think is possible and appropriate to us.

when we look for solutions, we grow in self-esteem; when we blame (or alibi), we weaken self-esteem.

When we eliminate negatives, we clear the way for the emergence of positives, and when we cultivate positives, negatives often weaken or disappear.