Favorite quotes

Here is another round of my favorite bits of wisdom:

• The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty. — Sara Hooker

• Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. — Tim Ferriss

• If I had only one hour to solve a problem, I would spend up to two-thirds of that hour in attempting to define what the problem is. — William H. Markle

• If you absolutely can’t tolerate critics, then don’t do anything new or interesting. — Jeff Bezos

• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. — Bertrand Russell

• Try and fail, but don’t fail to try. — Vinod Khosla

• So little of what could happen does happen. — Salvador Dali

• Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist. — Morgan Housel

• Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. — Warren Buffett

• The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

• What I learned on my own I still remember. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I find it helpful to be reminded of what we already know in a handy phrase. — KK