Essential Quotes

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I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in t

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

Clarice Lispector

Truth Yes Essential

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy Inspirational Essential

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

Steve Jobs

Idea Essential