If you are a fish, stay away from the fishhook; if you are a lover, stay away from the suspicion.
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.
Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
I'm a creature of the New York City streets.
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Paralympics. . . fascinating because just watching anyone with a major disability trying to do everyday chores is fun to watch.