Quotes About Challenge

His losses were mounting

hackers make systems stronger.

What they call play (gym, travel, sports) looks like work; the harder they try, the more captive they are.

There is no evolution without skin in the game.

taking the other side of fragility makes you antifragile.)

lose. His personal confidence was wiped out.

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal and sermonizing proverb, the harder it is to implement.

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

few want to jeopardize their jobs and reputation for the sake of change.

Lembre-se também do que vimos no capítulo 2: a sobrecompensação, para funcionar, exige algum nível de dano e estressores como ferramentas de descoberta

Contrary to popular belief, these small, seemingly harmless stressors do not strengthen you; they can amputate part of your self.

Now, if you run away, all you need to be is just faster than me, not faster than the animal.

But you are already there; why take more risks?

One summer I decided to read the twenty novels by Émile Zola in twenty days, one a day, and managed to do so at great expense.

People are scared of the alternative.

poverty makes experiences

It is more difficult to be a loser in a game you set up yourself.

you make people feel stupid for blindly following habits, instincts, and traditions.

there was no way to convince the management otherwise.

We need people to take (bounded) risks.

Stoicism makes you desire the challenge of a calamity.

It is hard to stick to a good discipline of mental write-off when things are going well, yet that's when one needs the discipline the most.

se você não assumir riscos, não há nada que possa fazer para tornar-se grande, nada.

you have the right to contradict me so long as I have the right to contradict you.