Favorite quote?

Listened to Bill Burr's podcast the other day. He talked about when he was taking drum lessons from an older guy, and the guy talked to him about his life growing up. Bill was miffed to learn about the stuff the guy did, and the guy told him:

"Every generation thinks they are the first to fuck"

I always find it interesting how we think the past is so different, yet it's mainly the same.

Second, I would say "you gotta let people do stupid things."

with great power comes great responsibility - spiderman

"Sell me this pen!" Wolf of Wall St.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. - Christopher Hitchens

"Work Hard, Play Hard" -- Wiz Khalifa

"All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells are within you" - Joseph Campbell

One of my favorite quotes just reminding us that we can be as good or as evil, as powerful or as weak, as we want to be. Made famous by the movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

"All it takes is one bad day" - Joker

“Talent always beats hardwork no matter how hard hard work works.”

try not do or do not there is no try

-Yoda

Two of my current favorites:

"Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask"

"The future is here already it's just not uniformly distributed"

You either get out of bed or you die in bed

Josip Broz Tito fed up with Stalin sending assassins wrote openly, "Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle (...) If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second."

“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.” ― Charles T. Munger

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"Nah"

-Rosa Parks

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We are to busy running in the rat race to see that we should be thinking about getting out of the race altogether.

"Never give up on your stupid dreams you fucking cry baby pussy"

-Some guy on reddit

not even joking. this is my favorite quote. has the perfect amount of "man the fuck up" and inspiration in it for me

“Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” ― Edward Snowden

“The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool. College examinations notwithstanding, it takes a very smart fella to say 'I don't know the answer!' "

and

“Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline.”

― both from Jerome Lawrence’s Inherit the Wind

"Kid, life is hard. But it's harder if you're stupid."

Most often attributed (albeit incorrectly) to John Wayne, I first heard this from my grandfather. I suspect many who grew up on the prairie in the early 20th century heard some form of this.

"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." - Ecclesiastes 9:11

“When you know and when you love you shall suffer still. The day dawns in tears. The luminous weep, were it only over the dark.” - Victor Hugo in Les Miserables

"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact." - Warren Buffett

Take a chance, Columbus did - Joey Diaz

If it's 2 in the afternoon and you ain't high, get out of my face. I want you around me like I want cancer in my ballsack - Joey Diaz

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

-Voltaire

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

General George S. Patton

"There is little difference between man and man but superiority lies with him who is reared in the severest of schools" -Thucyclides of Sparta

"Man - every man - is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others. He must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. He must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life." -Ayn Rand

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle

"[bureaucratic despotism] would resemble paternal power if, like that, it had for its object to prepare men for manhood; but on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them fixed irrevocably in childhood; it provides for their security, foresees and secures their needs, facilitates their pleasures, conducts their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their estates, divides their inheritances, can it not take away from them entirely the trouble of thinking and the pain of living? It extends its arms over society as a whole; it covers its surface w/ a network of small, complicated, painstaking uniform rules through which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot clear a way to surpass the crowd...it constantly opposes itself to one's acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes, and finally reduces each nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd." -Alexis de Tocqueville

"Trust me, I m not driving that 7-series without strippers. No one on the pole has good credit and they're all cash rich." - Warren Buffet on mortgage-backed securities

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you’d better be running. - I don't know whose this is, let's say it's an African proverb. Sometimes it helps in the mornings I want to be lazy.

"A Time for Everything" from Ecclesiastes 3 helps me in tough times when I am too tired or impatient.

"You shouldn't live with a man who doesn't smoke, Phuong." (The Quiet American) it sounds like a lovely acceptance of somebody's fault :)

If you want a friend, get a dog. There are no friends in the pit.

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." -Mark Twain

"Courage and honor endure forever. Their echoes remain when the mountains have crumbled to dust."

“Dragging his dick in the dirt”

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde

Happiness is the enemy, It weakens you, Puts doubt in your mind, Suddenly, you have something to lose. - Niki Lauda in Rush (2013)

"If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten." - Tony Robbins

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value – zero.” - Voltaire

“When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.” - Benjamin Franklin

“No social stability without individual stability.” - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.” - George Orwell, 1984

"The harder I work the luckier I get"

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Teddy Roosevelt

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

"Get busy livin, or get busy dyin!"

"Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards." -Frogman's Ballad

"It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war."

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent" - Calvin Coolidge

Wine is fine, but whiskey's quicker - OO

"I am better off than he is - for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows. I neither know nor think that I know." - Socrates

"We're all mad here" -- Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland.

Love that line. So short but so dark. Kinda relatable as I lose my mind in this job.

One to live by: "I'm of the opinion that medicine never does ya any good unless it tastes bad." Havilah Babcock.

Most inspiring: "I'm too drunk to taste this chicken." The late great Colonel Sanders.

Award for Largest Cojones: "I want to be clear - I do not respect the SEC." Elon Musk.

"Time is the coin of your life. Be careful, lest other people spend it for you."

"Expect nothing, be ready for anything"

“You’ve got to be very carful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.” - Yogi Berra

"You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper" -Some felon's last words before being executed

"There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do" - Derek Jeter

Not a quote, but just a solid piece of advice that I try to live by: When you're about to do something questionable, think about what your family and friends would think if they read about it on the front page of the New York Times. Often hear this from Bill Ackman but I am sure others say it.

"Never lose your self-esteem"

Hope is not an action plan!

"As a dog returns to its vomit, so too does a fool repeat his foolishness."

The Lord said to my Lord, "sit in the place of honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies, making them a footstool under your feet."

For he today who sheds his blood with me, he is my brother

"My asshole confounds the Louvre! I fart ambrosia and shit pure gold turds! My cock spurts soft diamonds in the morning sunlight!"

"Be just, and if you can't be just be arbitrary"

"But at my back I always hear // Time's winged chariot hurrying near"

"Isn't it pretty to think so?"

"There's leaders, and there's followers // But I'd rather be a dick than a swallower"

"Money trees is the perfect place for shade, and that's just how I feel"

Bitches ain’t shit, but hoes and tricks

"What is the definition of Hell? The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become"