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Radical Candor is about caring personally while challenging directly.
From Radical Candor by Kim Scott
The best moments in our lives occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.
From Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
From Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones
A schedule is a plan for how to spend time.
To be completely safe from failure, you must accept the possibility of failure.
From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can't have both.
From Rising Strong by Brené Brown
The essence of tragedy is the conflict between the Apollonian and the Dionysian.
People often prefer to appear moral rather than to actually be moral.
From The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
It’s not about having more time; it’s about making more choices.
From Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu
Success in endurance sports is often about how well you can manage your mind.
From Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson
The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.
From When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön
A programming language is a tool for expressing ideas.
The market is not a place for the faint of heart.
From The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
From Believe IT by Jamie Kern Lima
Doubt thrives in isolation; connection feeds courage.
From Choose Wonder Over Worry by Amber Rae
Your voice deserves to be heard, loud and clear.
From More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth
Being a troublemaker often means being a truth-teller.
You cannot manage what you cannot measure.
From High Output Management by Andy Grove
The challenge is not just to build intelligent agents, but to build agents that understand and respect human values.
From Human Compatible by Stuart Russell
Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
From Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
The loss of a language is the loss of a unique way of seeing the world.
From The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World by Wade Davis
The narrative around AI must shift from fear to informed engagement.
We must face our fears to truly live.
From What Doesn't Kill Us by Scott Carney
The spread of Christianity is a testament to the enduring power of the message of salvation.
From The History of the Church by Eusebius
The two-minute rule states that when you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do.
From Atomic Habits by James Clear
The future belongs to those who can adapt to the new realities of information and technology.
From The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
The willingness to show up changes us. It makes us a little braver each time.
From The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Mathematics is the language of the universe.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
You are the author of your own life.
From The Third Door by Alex Banayan
The words we use shape our understanding of the world.
From The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
If you keep learning all the time, you have a huge advantage.
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven to be very effective for image processing tasks.
From Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville
Fragrance is a language of its own.
From The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr
Work on your business, not in your business.
Faith is a daring trust in the unknown.
From The World's Religions by Huston Smith
Don't let fear dictate your choices.
From Wolfpack by Abby Wambach
Mathematics is the language in which the laws of nature are expressed.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
The main job of a manager is to make sure that the team is working on the right things.
From High Output Management by Andy Grove
You don’t stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.
From Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Life is a very narrow bridge; the important thing is to not be afraid.
You can change your life by changing your body language.
Fear is a prison; courage is the key.
From Out of the Ether by Matthew Leising
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision to act despite it.
Living in fear is no way to live.
From Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way to succeed.
From Win Forever by Pete Carroll
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do.
From What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey
We are more than ready to take on the challenges that lie ahead.
From More Than Ready by Cecilia Muñoz
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
From The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Focus on the few things that really matter.
From High Output Management by Andy Grove
A philosopher is someone who is not afraid to ask questions.
From Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
The only way to get over the fear of failure is to fail.
From Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones
We can choose courage, or we can choose comfort, but we can't have both.
From Rising Strong by Brené Brown
Salt has been a vital part of human culture.
From Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
You can’t get to courage without walking through vulnerability.
From Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
You must be more intentional about your time and attention.
From Deep Work by Cal Newport
Mathematics and language are the foundations of modern cryptography.
From The Code Book by Simon Singh
Art is not an escape from reality; it is a deeper engagement with it.
The only courage you ever need is the courage to follow your heart.
From The Path Made Clear by Oprah Winfrey
Women need to take risks to build confidence.
An intelligent agent is one that acts to achieve its goals in the world.
From Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
The first step in asking for help is to believe that you are worthy of it.
From Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu
Always ask, 'What is the worst that could happen?'
From Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann
The world needs more women who are brave.
From Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani
The martyrs, by their unwavering faith, have shown the world the true power of belief.
From The History of the Church by Eusebius
To understand the world, we must engage with it deeply and intuitively.
Language is a powerful medium of information.
From The Information by James Gleick
Change happens when we dare to challenge the status quo.
From The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
We cannot be free until we are free in our bodies.
Communication is the key to success.
From High Output Management by Andy Grove
A manager’s job is to make sure that the right people are in the right jobs.
From High Output Management by Andy Grove
The digital age has transformed the landscape of secrecy.
Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result.
From Traction by Gino Wickman
What you want is on the other side of fear.
From The Third Door by Alex Banayan
When you don't set boundaries, you are inviting chaos into your life.
Ninety percent of the world’s population has a body in cyberspace.
From The Neuromancer by William Gibson
Leadership roles are often perceived as masculine, which can discourage women.
From The Fix: Overcome the Invisible Barriers That Are Holding Women Back at Work by Michelle P. King
There is no silver bullet.
The hardest thing about being a CEO is that you don’t get to be a CEO.
To achieve greatness, you must embrace discomfort.
Resource management will dictate the success of a new society.
From The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm by Lewis Dartnell
You need to create value for your users before they will engage with your product.
From The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
In the Information Age, the individual has unprecedented power.
From The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
We are not simply passive observers; we are active participants in shaping our reality.
From A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins
To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.
From The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
He was a man who was never afraid to take a risk.
From The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen
I realized that I was saying no to things that scared me, and that I was missing out on a lot of great opportunities.
From Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
From The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
Mindfulness helps you to be present and fully engaged in the moment.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
An hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour lost for the entire system.
From The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
You are the architect of your own life.
From Finding Ultra by Rich Roll
If you don't know what to measure, you can't manage.
From The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The future of life depends on our ability to manage AI.
From Human Compatible by Stuart Russell
I’m not one to back down from a challenge.
From The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant
We need to stop waiting for someone to come and save us.
From Wolfpack by Abby Wambach
The fool is the one who takes no risk.
You have to be willing to take risks.
From The Future Is Faster Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler