Author: nickvooi

“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." —Richard Feynman

“When nothing seems to help, I go back and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all … Continue reading QOTD →

“The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like that.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.6

“Every man is a bridge, spanning the legacy he inherited and the legacy he passes on." Terrence Real

“For the first time in my life, I had a radical thought: Who cares how well you perform if you’re so utterly miserable?” Excerpt FromOutlivePeter Attia, MD

“Coming to terms with how much you don’t know means coming to terms with how much of what happens in the world is out of your control. And that can be hard to accept.” Excerpt FromThe Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and HappinessMorgan HouselThis material may be protected by copyright.

“I suppose a society that became highly sensitive to the scarcity of attention might modify its reading habits to allocate attention more efficiently.” Herbert Simon

“Good decisions aren’t always rational. At some point you have to choose between being happy or being 'right'." Excerpt FromThe Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and HappinessMorgan HouselThis material may be protected by copyright.

“It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win” Margaret Thatcher