Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by nikivi on Friday September 11, 2020 @03:49AM (#24440127)

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

- Steve Jobs

And in similar vain:

Are you moving one step in 20 directions or 20 steps in one direction?

I collect a few of my favorite mottos/quotes here: https://nikitavoloboev.xyz/likes/#quotes

Most of these mottos and quotes are just pretty versions of my more generalized and practical rules I wrote for myself:

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/rules

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by xpil on Friday September 11, 2020 @09:53AM (#24442824)

"Are you moving one step in 20 directions or 20 steps in one direction?" - in 20-dimensional space I may still be moving forward, even though I'm changing direction with each step ;)

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by hrmon on Friday September 18, 2020 @10:46AM (#24517428)

For God's sake that's the ultimate motto! :)) But really, I prefer one step in 20 directions because at the end I want to be a human being who has tried to be better in many dimensions of life, not the popular superhero at X who is a freak!

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by varrock on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:26AM (#24441509)

You have a great website. I was especially curious about your minimalism section and how you list all of your possessions. May I ask; do you truly not own any bedding? I'm similar to you such that I find extreme value in being able to pack up my things and go somewhere else with relative ease.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by nikivi on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:29AM (#24441524)

I do own bedding, just didn't think to mention it. Same for chair or a table. It mostly lists things I would take with me if I were to move to a new place.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by paulolc on Friday September 11, 2020 @09:35AM (#24442615)

"Are you moving one step in 20 directions or 20 steps in one direction?" So what if I'm moving one step in 20 directions but I'm enjoying each one of them? Isn't preferrable to enjoy the journey and never reaching nowhere rather than reaching your destination whatever it takes on each step? :D

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by pc86 on Friday September 11, 2020 @11:02AM (#24443572)

If your goal is simply "enjoy the journey" then yes that's fine - you're successful in what you're trying to do.

The analogy is useful when someone's goal is "start a business" but shiny object syndrome keeps them from focusing on actually starting the business.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by BatteryMountain on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:13AM (#24441417)

Thank you for this.

Regarding your last link:

I have something similar scattered all over text files in multiple drives and very rarely see them. Yours is organized, in one place and easy to see your intentions if you need to.

Maybe everyone should look at your list once in a while. Just reading them has a very strong emotional effect for me.

Bookmarked!

Thank you

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by Balgair on Friday September 11, 2020 @11:53AM (#24444100)

I love the quotes and learnings section!

I get a vibe from it like 1001 Rules for my Unborn Son

https://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com/

EDIT: going back through this old blog, beware, it has not aged as well as one would have hoped.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? by bobbydreamer on Monday September 14, 2020 @03:53PM (#24474354)

580. Spend time with your mother. She’s cooler than you think.

True

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