Quotes About Wisdom

I look at every failure as a learning experience and try to spend time with my failures. I stew on them for a while until I pick out some nugget from them that I can take forward.

Christopher Carmichael, "You are 99 years old, you are on your deathbed, and you have a chance to come back to right now: what would you do?

Diversity in counsel, unity in command." –Cyrus the Great Founder of the Achaemenid Empire, known as the "king of Persia

Peter Drucker and his book The Effective Executive, as well as Alain de Botton's (page 486) How Proust Can Change Your Life.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg

As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble." –Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist, leader of the 19th-century transcendentalist movement

El genio es solamente la facultad superior de ver.» JOHN RUSKIN, afamado artista y crítico social

I'm very much in favor of learning. I'm much more skeptical of credentialing or the abstraction called 'education.

Two Words for Conflict Resolution "[My mentor's] life advice to me, when I'm going into a conflict or a difficult situation with my parents or an argument with Neil [Gaiman, her husband] is, 'Say less.' That's it. Just say less.

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger

Aprende de los grandes, no de la competencia

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. —NIELS BOHR,

Play more. I feel like people are so serious, and it doesn't take much for people to drop back into the wisdom of a childlike playfulness. If I had to prescribe two things to improve health and happiness in the world, it'd be movement and play. Because you can't really play without moving, so they're intertwined.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened." —Mark Twain

We equate being smart and being driven as the ways to get ahead. But sometimes, an attitude of alert watchfulness is far wiser and more effective. Learning to follow your nose, pulling on threads of curiosity or interest, may take you places that being driven will never lead you to.

Most likely, the problem won't be around in a year, but my reputation of how I dealt with it will.

The world is this continually unfolding set of possibilities and opportunities, and the tricky thing about life is, on the one hand having the courage to enter into things that are unfamiliar, but also having the wisdom to stop exploring when you've found something worth sticking around for. That is true of a place, of a person, of a vocation.

Soy anciano y he conocido gran cantidad de problemas, pero la mayoría de ellos no ha llegado a suceder jamás.

he is the author of Anything You Want, a collection of short life lessons that I've read at least a dozen times.

We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."–Chuck Palahniuk Famed American author, best known for Fight Club

The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life.

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger

What you study is more important than how you study. Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn't matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn't matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material. Material beats method.

Soy anciano y he pasado gran cantidad de preocupaciones, pero la mayoría de ellas no ha llegado a materializarse jamás.