"Sometimes we forge our own principles and sometimes we accept others' principles, or holistic packages of principles, such as religion and legal systems. While it isn't necessarily a bad thing to use others' principles - it's difficult to come up with your own, and often much wisdom has gone into those already created - adopting pre-packaged principles without much thought exposes you to the risk of inconsistency with your true values."

-- Ray Dalio

#Life Quotes #Risk Quotes #Growth Quotes

“I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.”

Source : "Paul Allen: He talks Trail Blazers, Microsoft, 'The Social Network'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. April 19, 2011.
“College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.”
“Don't expect a great day; create one.”
“By sticking to my principles and what I firmly believe in - I always have my own attitude towards everything in life. I wish to create trends rather than follow them. My daily routine at the moment is really just a combination of work and family.”
“nothing is as conventional as adolescence.”
“Thank you for all the birthday wishes, it's brought a tear to my eye, and a boner to my pants.”
“The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.”
“Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.”

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