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Good Life Frameworks Flashcards

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In our fears we act mortal

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But in our desires we act immortal

Seneca

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Strive for progress

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Not perfection

Tai Lopez

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Through every generation of the human race there’s been a constant war, a war with fear.

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Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

Alexander the Great

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It is impossible to live the pleasant life

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Without living sensibly, nobly and justly, and it is impossible to love sensible, nobly and justly without living pleasantly.

Epicurus

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The universe is change

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And life is but what you deem it.

Marcus Aurelius

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Iron sharpens iron

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So a friend sharpens a friend

Tai Lopez

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Set your heart on doing good.

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Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy. A fool is happy until his mischief turns against him, and a good man may suffer until his goodness flowers.

Buddha

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We don’t live, we spend time.

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But we don’t live, because our mind is never in a case when it’s prepared.

Seneca

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Do what’s difficult

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When it’s easy.

Lao Tzu

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The word you say to yourself

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Are by far the most important words will ever say

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There will be nothing impossible

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To him who will try.

Alexander the Great

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To change the nation, you have to change the rulers.

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To change the rulers, have to change the families. To change the family’s, you have to change the heart. To change the heart, you have to change the mind. To change the mind you have to generate curiosity.

Confucius

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It is not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything

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But it is given demon beings who work hard at it, who look in sift the world for Miss place but, they can occasionally find one.

Charlie Munger

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Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.

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Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts…. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day–if you live long enough–most people get what they deserve.

Charlie Munger

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Life tragedy is that we get old too soon

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And wise too late, when you’re finished changing you’re finished.

Benjamin Franklin

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It is a grand mistake to think of being great

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Without goodness and I pronounce it is as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

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Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly

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If your new behavior gives a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group… Then to hell with them

Charlie Munger

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The best source of new work

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Is the work on your desk

Charlie Munger

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Discipline is the bridge

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Between goals and accomplishments

Jim Rohn

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It’s not enough to be busy

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So with ants. The question is what are you busy about

Henry David Thoreau

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If you take care the minutes

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The years will take care of themselves

Benjamin Franklin

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Unless commitment is made

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There are only promises and hopes, but no plans

Peter Drucker

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The best thing about the future

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Is that it comes one day at a time

Abraham Lincoln

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You become great the moment you decide

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To do and follow through on what it takes to become great

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Get up every day bound and determined to improve something

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Be unafraid of being wrong. Once you see you’re wrong, shake it off and head another direction.

Sam Walton

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Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better

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Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish more wisdom.

Jim Rohn

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See a man diligent in skilled at what he does

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He will stand before kings, not before average man.

Ancient proverb

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When you aren’t practicing

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Someone else is. And when you meet them you will lose.

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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change

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The courage to change the thing I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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30
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To get what you want

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You have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people

Charlie Munger

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In order to take any position

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You must be able to argue the opposite position better than they can.

Charlie Munger

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99 times out of 100

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People don’t criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be

Dale Carnegie

33
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Survival machines you can simulate

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The future are one step ahead of survival machines who can only learn from overt trial and error

Richard Dawkins

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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain

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And most do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Dale Carnegie

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In an age that would level everything and reference nothing

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I like my candles at the feet of great men. How unfashionable it is now to acknowledge in life or history any genius loftier than ourselves.

Will Durant

36
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We take for granted that the soil

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Which we stand as a passing thing, transiently compact of elements that will disintegrate and leave not a wrack behind

Will Durant

37
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That whereby man differs

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From the lower animals is little. Most people throw it away.

Confucius

38
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Either write something worth reading

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Or do something worth writing

Benjamin Franklin

39
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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday

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And our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

40
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Everyone is born to be exceptional

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But the vast majority are programmed and condition to be average

41
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If it wasn’t hard

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Everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great

Tom Hanks

42
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Example is

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Not the main thing in influencing people, it’s the only thing.

Abraham Lincoln

43
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Don’t try to teach a pig to fly

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You can’t do it and it bothers the pig.

Joel Salatin

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Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure

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Against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tight rope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk there is no pride in achievement and, consequently, no happiness. The only way we can achieve is by going, forward individually and collectively, in the spirit of the pioneer. We must take risks involved in our free enterprise system. This is the only way in the world to economic freedom. There is no other way.

Ray A Kroc

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The person who only thinks in the terms

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What’s mine can’t imagine anyone else not thinking the same way.

Ray A Kroc

46
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Don’t waste time

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On things you can’t change

47
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When you start thinking about slacking off

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On your routines and rhythms, consider the massive cost of inconsistency

Dan Hardy

48
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We all have ambitions and a large goals.

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We are either waiting for some perfect moment to realize them, or we are taking action in the present.

49
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The moment you believe in some cherished idea

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That you will hold onto no matter what your ears and eyes reveal to you, you are not a realist

50
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The greatest danger you face

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Is your mind growing soft and your eye getting dull

51
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The less you fear

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The more power you have in the more fully you will live

52
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Patience, persistence, perspiration

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Makes an unbeatable combination for success

Napoleon Hill

53
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Any you don’t destroy

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One of your best loved ideas is a wasted year.

Charlie Munger

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You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines and use them routinely

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Not just a few. Most people are trained in one model and try to solve all problems in one way. You know the old saying, “to a man with a hammer, the world looks like a nail.” This is a dumb way of handling problems.

Charlie Munger

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Take a simple idea

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And take it seriously

Charlie Munger

56
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Enjoy the process along

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With the proceeds, because the process is where you live.

Charlie Munger

57
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Preparation, discipline

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Patience, decisiveness

Charlie Munger

58
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We can do anything we want

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As long as we stick to it long enough

Helen Keller

59
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Keep things simple and remember what you set out to do.

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Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets, and can be lost in a heartbeat.

Charlie Munger

60
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Don’t overlook the obvious

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By drowning in minutia.

Charlie Munger

61
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Face your big troubles

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Don’t sweep them under the rug

Charlie Munger

62
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All investment evaluations

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Should begin by measuring risk, especially reputational.

Charlie Munger

63
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Never fool yourself

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And remember that you’re the easiest person to fool

64
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Acknowledging you don’t know

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Is the dawning of wisdom

Charlie Munger

65
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The only way to win is

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To work, work, work and hope you have a few insights

Charlie Munger

66
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Only in fairytales

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Are emperors told that they are naked. Objectivity and rationality require independence of thought.

Charlie Munger

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Live with change and accept the unremovable complexity

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Recognize and adapt to the true nature of the world around you, don’t expect it to adapt to you

Charlie Munger

68
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It is better to remember

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The obvious than to grasp the esoteric

Charlie Munger

69
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If you think you can

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Or you can’t, you’re right

Henry Ford

70
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Use the scientific method

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And effective checklists to minimize errors and omissions

Charlie Munger

71
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The greatest obstacle to living

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Is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today

Seneca

72
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But life is very short and anxious

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For those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future

Seneca

73
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I think by far the most important bill

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In our whole code, is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

74
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A coward is much more

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Exposed to quarrels and a man of spirit

Thomas Jefferson

75
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Art is long, life is short,

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Opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.

Hippocrates

76
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The men who can manage people

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Manage the men who can only manage things. But the men who can manage money, manage all.

Will Durant

77
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Do or do not

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There is no try

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