Quotes I’m Pondering
(Tim Ferriss: June 23–July 7, 2017)
“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”
–Seneca
Roman Stoic philosopher, famed playwright
“We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric. It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.”
–Charlie Munger
Investing partner of Warren Buffett, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
“One whose mind is
one with the sky-void steps
into a spring mist
and thinks to herself she might
in fact step out of this world.”
–Saigyō (1118–1190)
Famous Japanese poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura period