patience
Luxury takes time to be achieved and to be appreciated. Luxury cannot and must not move fast.
-Giorgio Armani
sari added 4mo ago
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
sari added 5mo ago
Boy, I hurried... I hurried for a long time. I'm sorry I did. All the time you're hurrying, you're not really as aware as you should be. You're trying to make things happen instead of just letting it happen. You follow me?
-Bob Dylan
sari added 5mo ago
Jerry Seinfeld:
"You must master waiting. 'Show's gonna be delayed a half hour.' Fine. Plane's gonna be delayed two hours. Fine. Career's gonna be delayed five years, Fine."
phoebe added 5mo ago
Chamath on the importance of slow compounding:
“The faster you build it, that is the half life: it will get destroyed in the same amount of time.”
Things tend to come and go, tip to one side and then the other, tide out and back in, grow and then rot, get created and destroyed, at the same speed.sari added 7mo ago
adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
sari added 8mo ago
Impatience is an argument with reality - Rick Rubin
Natalie Audelo added 10mo ago
I do not mean passivity, which is frequently mistaken for patience. It is passivity that tells us not to fight for our work. It is passivity that takes “no” for a final answer. Passivity is exactly that: pass-ive. We take a pass on growth on our own behalf. Patience is very different. Patience is not the acceptance of weakness. It is the quiet, slo
... See morephoebe added 10mo ago
this insight from Visa:
when you have a game-changing insight you’ll often have to repeat it for 5-7 years before people start to really get it
sari added 1y ago
- “The fast way is the slow way because the slow way is the only way” – Steven Bartlett
andrea added 1y ago