David P

The quote dealer: a collection of classics

[David P @dminor25]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[David P @dminor25]

@markfzhuk There has to be some sort of connection to flow state, right?

[David P @dminor25]

@hubermanlab @ShaharyarRants Does this apply to cold showers as well? I take them shortly after workouts, and am wondering if there’s a reference to the data you mention above. Thank you so much!

[David P @dminor25]

If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
-OW

[David P @dminor25]

It is personalities, not principles, that move the age.
-OW

[David P @dminor25]

He had no curiosity. It was his chief defect.
-OW

[David P @dminor25]

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[David P @dminor25]

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women. There are phrases from literary works that have a positively human personality.
-FP

[David P @dminor25]

Childishly absurd, I relive my boyhood and play with the ideas of things as I once played with my toy soldiers, with which I did things that went totally against the idea of soldiers. Drunk on errors, I momentarily find myself erroneously alive.
To dream is to find yourself
-FP

[David P @dminor25]

Most men spontaneously live a fictitious, alien life. Most people are other people, said Oscar Wilde, and he was quite right.
-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[David P @dminor25]

Every new idea, every great idea, when it first began was in a minority of one … I think it was Bertrand Russell who said, “Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.”
-AdM, Awareness

[David P @dminor25]

How ready are you to think of something unfamiliar? The first reaction is one of fear. It’s not that we fear the unknown. You cannot fear something that you do not know … What you really fear is the loss of the known.
-AdM, Awareness

[David P @dminor25]

If the eye is unobstructed, it results in sight; if the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing … the nose … a sense of smell … the mouth … a sense of taste; if the mind is unobstructed, the result is wisdom … if the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
-AdM

[David P @dminor25]

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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…it’s partly true, too, but it isn’t all true. People always thing something’s all true.
-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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Happiness comes from the same thing: caring about something greater than yourself
-Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

[David P @dminor25]

‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.’
-E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

[David P @dminor25]

For if I have ventured wrongly, very well, life then helps me with its penalty. But if I haven’t ventured at all, who helps me then?
-Soren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

[David P @dminor25]

@VladiSays Bro you’re about it lose it all -Marty