DEC 11th: "Look for decisions that remove hundreds or thousands of other decisions" — IDK
DEC 10th: "If you and a collaborator agree on everything, then one of you may be unnecessary" — Charlie Munger, I think?
DEC 4th: "The difficult we do now. The impossible takes a little longer" — 1940's Phrase from the US Navy Construction Battalion
DEC 3rd: "I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it" — I forget
DEC 2nd: "It should feel as though the ground is smashing the bag through your fist" — Josh Waitzkin, martial artist/chess champion, describing the perfect punch.
DEC 1st: "You be in your feelings, I be in my bag, you bish!" — Kendrick Lamar
NOV 30th: "Who sought the prize his heart described, / And did not ask release, / Whose free born valor was not bribed / By prospect of a peace" — One of Henry David Thoreau's friends
NOV 24th: "How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways, Mike said. "Gradually, and then suddenly." — Earnest Hemingway
NOV 23rd: "Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences." — Sylvia Plath, apparently
NOV 22nd: "It helps to have assiduity: the ability to sit on your ass until you do it." — Charlie Munger
NOV 20th: "Next time you're trying to avoid someone, ask yourself, "What am I trying to not feel?" — Jade Bartz '28
NOV 15th: "Because right now there is someone out there with a wound in the exact shape of your words." — "Why Bother," written by Sean Thomas Dougherty (Shoutout Aidan Aybar '28 for putting me on)
NOV 14th: "All problems become smaller if you confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly and its spines crumble." — Maxwell Maltz
NOV 12th: "Happiness requires problems." — H. L. Hollingworth
NOV 11th: "He who truly creates is alone." — Milocz (Shoutout Nate Berg '27)
NOV 10th: "How foolish it is to set out one's life, when one is not even owner of the morrow!" — Seneca, On the Futility of Planning Ahead
NOV 9th: "Intelligence is a matter of guessing well" — Horace Barlow, neurobiologist
NOV 8th: "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility" — Khalil Gilbran
NOV 7th: "All the pain of your entire life, on your deathbed, will seem to have lasted no longer than a single night at a bad hotel." — Francis Pedraza
NOV 6th: "For lack of a nail a shoe was lost / for lack of a shoe a horse was lost." — Proverb
NOV 5th: "Don't fall in love with the moment and think you're in love with the girl" — Elizabeth White
NOV 4th: "Become insane and desperate to die. Ten men will not be able to kill you" — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
NOV 3rd: "Not all who believe succeed, but none who don't do" — Proverb
NOV 2nd: "The road to vice is not only downhill, but steep." — Seneca
NOV 1st: "Pessimists got that way by financing optimists." — John Gardner
OCT 31st: "We are timeless beings, amalgamations of all past generations, who will continue to exist through all future generations" — Liam Rodriguez, class of '28.
OCT 30th: "Did you update your website today?" — Jules Wecker, class of '28.
OCT 29th: "The magic lives close to the edge" — Lorde's spotify profile
OCT 28th: "We are what we repeatedly do" — Aristotle
OCT 27th: "Do the thing and you shall have the power" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
OCT 26th: "Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens" — Carl Jung