Some of the best learnings/quotes I encountered in 2023.

1. Key Learnings 2023
Yoann Lopez

2. • These are quotes from books/articles/podcasts / etc. I read
or listened to in 2023
• Sometimes I forgot the author, unfortunately. 😞
• I aim to read them from time to time to “absorb” their
wisdom.

3. I'm just a collection of mirrors, re
fl
ecting
what everyone else expects of me.
- Rollo May

4. There are two cardinal sins
from which all others
spring: Impatience and
Laziness.
—Franz Kafka

5. Only the mediocre are
always at their best.
—Jean Giraudoux

6. We tend to overestimate the
effect of a technology in the
short run and underestimate
the effect in the long run.
- Roy Amara

7. We tend to overestimate what
we can achieve in 6 months
and underestimate what we
can achieve in 18 months.
- Matt Rickard

8. I am not young enough to
know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

9. Never love anyone who
treats you like you’re
ordinary.
- Oscar Wilde

10. Always forgive your
enemies; nothing annoys
them so much.
- Oscar Wilde

11. We are each our own devil,
and we make this world our
hell.”
- Oscar Wilde

12. If you’re lonely when you’re
alone, you’re in bad
company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

13. I’m at the stage in life where
I stay out of arguments.
Even if you say 1+1=5,
you’re right. Have fun.
– Keanu Reeves

14. Happiness is that feeling
you get right before you
need more happiness
– Don Draper (
fi
ctional
character)

15. The purpose of life is to
experience things for which
you will later experience
nostalgia.
– FedSpeak

16. Yesterday is
gone. Tomorrow has not yet
come. We have only today.
Let us begin.
- Mother Teresa

17. Have no fear of perfection -
you’ll never reach it.
- Salvador Dali

18. A year from now you may
wish you had started today.
- Karen Lamb

19. A true artist is not one who
is inspired, but one who
inspires others.
- Salvador Dali

20. Those who do not want to
imitate anything, produce
nothing.
- Salvador Dalí

21. Tell me and I forget, teach
me and I may remember,
involve me and I learn.
- Benjamin Franklin

22. I am a slow walker, but I
never walk back.
- Abraham Lincoln

23. Seek freedom and become
captive of your desires.
Seek discipline and
fi
nd
your liberty.
- Frank Herbert

24. It is not so much the kind of
person a man is as the kind of
situation in which he
fi
nds
himself that determines how he
will act.
- Stanley Milgram

25. You cannot swim for new
horizons until you have
courage to lose sight of the
shore.
- William Faulkner

26. Until we know we are
wrong, being wrong feels
exactly like being right.
- David McRaney

27. In individuals, insanity is
rare; but in groups, parties,
nations and epochs, it is
the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

28. The difference between
stupidity and genius is that
genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein

29. The strongest-held beliefs are
usually on topics with the most
uncertainty. No one is as
passionate about geometry as
they are about religion.
- Morgan Housel

30. People only communicate perhaps 1% of what’s
going through their head, so the world is probably
100x crazier and messier than it looks. Related: It is
easier to spot other people’s mistakes than your
own, because we judge others based solely on
their actions, but when judging ourselves we have
an internal dialogue that justi
fi
es our mistakes and
bad decisions.
- Morgan Housel

31. Woodrow Wilson said government “is
accountable to Darwin, not to Newton.” It’s
a useful idea. Everything is accountable to
one of the two, and you have to know
whether something adapts and changes
over time or perpetually stays the same.
- Morgan Housel

32. I love Brent Beshore’s observation
that, “I am 100% happy to watch
you get really rich doing something
that I have no interest in doing.” It’s
not always a competition.
- Morgan Housel

33. Not caring about temporary
things, and obsessing over
permanent things, is underrated.
- Morgan Housel

34. Appear weak when you are
strong, and strong when
you are weak.
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

35. I know not with what weapons
World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be
fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein

36. Best voting advice: Voting isn’t marriage.
It’s public transport. You’re not waiting
for ‘the one’. You’re getting on the bus.
And if there isn’t one going exactly to
your destination, you don’t stay home
and sulk. You take the one that’s going
closest to where you want to be.
– @mhdksafa

37. Most people do not really want
freedom, because freedom
involves responsibility, and most
people are frightened of
responsibility.
- Sigmund Freud

38. Notice that, while lots of people are
happy to tell you about Golden Ages,
nobody ever seems to think one is
happening right now. Maybe that’s
because the only place a Golden Age
can ever happen is in our memory.
- Adam Mastroianni