Michael Eisen famous quotes

When we stop resisting what we don't want to feel and embrace the state that we are in, we move through whatever it is SO much faster and find our way back to truth and clarity.
-- Michael Eisen

#Moving #Want #Way

Life isn’t about the final destination or the accomplishments and accolades; it’s about the journey and the opportunities for learning—and how we grow as a result.
-- Michael Eisen

#Opportunity #Journey #Accomplishment

The journals want the papers that make the sexiest claims. And scientists believe that the way you succeed is having splashy papers in Science or Nature - it's not bad for them if a paper turns out to be wrong, if it's gotten a lot of attention.
-- Michael Eisen

#Believe #Attention #Paper

When we allow ourselves to feel what we are feeling-without trying to understand it, explain it, or judge it-we reach a point where the true wisdom reveals itself.
-- Michael Eisen

#Judging #Feelings #Trying

If you want to empower anyone else in your life, you need to start living the most empowered version of yourself first!
-- Michael Eisen

#Empowering #Want #Firsts

Life isn’t about the final destination or the accomplishments and accolades; it’s about the journey and the opportunities for learning—and how we grow as a result.
-- Michael Eisen

#Opportunity #Journey #Accomplishment

Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.

The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?