My Motivational Quotes
My Motivational Quotes
Listen to your heart and hold on to values. Do this instead of falling asleep into a subjectivist's dream, only to wake up later to having drifted further away from the truth.
If it is safe, let the idealist remain with one foot in their "illusion", otherwise we completely lose access to that world.
If you want to understand others, try to look at yourself from an outer perspective. If you want to see yourself from an outer perspective, try and understand others.
The attempt to bring all the people on the same page is more rewarding than the attempt to fulfill all the people's expectations.
One can blame their parents or the school system that they didn't teach one enough about how the world actually works... until one realises that what they could have taught could in no case have satisfied one's actual hunger for knowledge.
The intention to "save the world" may arise from a mix of perfectionism and megalomania, and still be a noble endeavour.
The worst of all half-finished things is a half-finished thought.
The deepest point of human stupidity is when you fear that others will hinder you, just because they don't possess the same qualities as / better qualities than you do. Ignorance should drive exploration and progress, and not induce fear, selfishness, and superfluous ignorance.
Being ahead of one's time with an intention to integrate or to bridge what needs to be integrated or bridged (be it aspects of relatively distant cultures or seemingly contradictory branches of a scientific field) may feel schizophrenic.
It takes courage to watch your dreams explode, but that explosion might be your future's BIGBANG.
Definition of "crazy or quit": A situation where you can choose either to give up on something, or to look like an idiot to any external observer.
The harder the present day, the further one must dare to look into the future.
The judgement of our own morality depends upon how we judge our world, the world we constitute and create. Injecting morality into this loop is beneficial. The trick is not taking a step back, but inside.
Not being able, yet trying hard to understand a concept or theory, is what makes a person understand more and greater concepts and theories later, by over-stretching their mind in another (a "wrong") direction.
Value systems are bordered by rejections of ideas. Maybe it's worth keeping one end open though.
Life giving you lemons is still better than having to squeeze yourself.
The only way [*to figure it*] out is through.
Some people are like mangrove trees: their "breathing roots" are confused by others for stumps.
The world may not be perfect, but the seed of perfection is planted in our minds.
The biggest step of a journey is the one over the threshold.
The desire "to understand how the world works" is an admirable one, especially when expressed directly. A young student may turn to the subject of economics to fulfil just that. Typically, the financial aspects are meant and targeted. And whilst the workings of the world cannot be understood in materialistic terms only, if they can ever be at all, the fact that there is so much more to economics than people tend to imagine, makes it the appropriate subject for anyone honest enough, and hungry enough for knowledge.
Stick to plan A, even if you have to go through the whole alphabet backwards for it.
Do your best, care less about the rest.
Don't worry about the world having to catch up with your thoughts. There's been progress made through unintended discoveries, but by now, most of our leaps were consequences of what have been born as ideas first.
Three wonderful things: a sky full of stars, a heart full of love, and a book full of ideas.
By default (and very generally said), I would not be searching diligently for the answers to the question: "How should the world work?" What keeps me motivated though, is the question: "What if the world worked the way it should?"
The mind becomes more magical, as we keep learning.
“You're living in a dream world...” “No. I'm living in a potential world.”
Life can have internal and external unevennesses. As for the external ones, the rays of / glimpses into a potential harmonious system may result in moments of exaltation for the individual. When they figure out how to institutionalise it, that exaltation is soothed, and hope and trust are distributed.
Empathy is "the ability to understand and share the feelings of another". And... it could also be one of your brain's ways of showing it is capable of embracing further entire universes. So empathy is actually kind of a superpower, occurring frequently, but not too frequently.
The future doesn't charge interest on the hope borrowed.
It is not the destination, nor the journey. It is the direction.
The desire to have faith in something has to be augmented by the willingness to work (a lot) for the discovery and exploration of the object of faith. Lacking this "spiritual work ethic", the individual is prone to charlatans.
Follow your dreams as soon as you can, for over the years, there may be more friction.
A day only really starts, when you can move on from your To-Do-List to your To-Think-List. Ask yourself the question: When does your day start?
Know the system, at least as much as the system knows you.
Thinking outside of the box and expressing it requires you to know everything that's inside, because the ones who will challenge you on your outer thoughts will do so randomly. You'll only be fully recognized and shielded if you build another box around the one you got out of.
When you search for common characteristics in elements of a system, or for rules and laws therein, it may feel like assembling a jigsaw puzzle. Some discoveries are made accidentally, but during most of the time, your aim is clear: to complete the big picture.
If thinking is a task, then some of us are multitasking all the time.
Quantification of progress is the first level of gamification as a method of motivation. Sometimes, quantification in itself is enough to motivate oneself and/or others. This shows the power of numbers through the human will.
When close to midnight, you shut your laptop, to continue thinking tentatively on paper only, but don't turn it off entirely, for having a strong feeling you'll open it the same night again. You know that feeling?
One peculiar aspect of possessing multiple perspectives (regarding cultures, politics, etc.), in general, may be the firmer knowledge of what not to give a damn about.
Some languages differentiate between *listening* and *listening "fully"* with just 1 letter (~ Russian), or with a preposition (~ Hungarian). This is crucial in learning. Listening can awaken one's interest, but listening "fully" reveals a more complete picture.
One important, and more clearly defined skill in the future could be: knowing the art of arranging dimensions. Not physical dimensions (or that one maybe later as well), but dimensions of knowledge: perspectives and categories. For sensible rearrangements reveal gaps.
Being conscious of one's time and plans makes one more persistent - not merely because of the orientation and the clearer path towards their goals, but also because one can overcome temptations within incremental decisions more effectively, thus avoiding procrastination.
The road to success is paved with countless searches. Searches for solutions, norms, knowledge, and that your ideas don't exist on the internet yet.
If someone compiles their *personal* list of (re)sources to arrive at new knowledge, beyond listing "tangible" works, such as former theses, publications, current drafts, and the ideas sketched "on the side", they may consider adding intuition, motivation and love.
When having a small task and a bigger one, starting with the small task feels better, not just for having an earlier impression of completion, but also for the following reason: When you move on to the bigger task, having partially completed that may remind one positively of the completion of the small task, which was a rewarding feel. This rewarding "partial completion point" of the big task may lie at the ratio, where: partially completed big task / big task = small task / (small task + big task).
On the long term, the elements of your productiveness are hugely determined by your moral capacity, by your intentions towards fellow creatures, and the extent to which the world "fits into your heart".
Moral/ethical choices open up myriads of new paths, avenues, even “highways” of opportunities, both internally, and in what is recognisable and respectable from an external, even from a materialistic point of view.
In terms of subjective human perception, there is a myriad of worlds out there. Being able to adapt to circumstances contains the more specific and peaceful skill of acceptance, after the process of which, for a while, a second, or its split, one has more of those worlds of perception available to them.
The intellectual equivalent of one of the famous wartime quotes would be: "I have nothing to offer but... questions." And I have a lot of them.
Don't "rise to the challenge". Find a challenge that rises to you.
Your freedom, in some sense, lies in: what you can offer minus what is expected from you.
In moments that "don't matter", do what is expected, so that you can "afford" getting the unexpected accepted in the moments that do.
Having no results for searches feels like being a scholar at the very brink of the unknown.
Chase your dreams most of the time, burst the bubbles once in a while.
Someone who moves between worlds can move worlds.
In order to see far ahead, you need to stand tall. But standing tall is not enough. You need to be stable too, because what you will see, will make you dizzy.
Belief is a channel of potential. And at times one should recognize that their potential is actually greater even than what they believe in.
Success (of any kind) as an end in itself is neither sustainable, nor enjoyable. As a byproduct, however, it is both.
A system may be too large to be sued, but never too large to be saved.
Sometimes... you don't know the answer. You are the answer.
*** One day they shall look back to see // That you were part of history. ***
Reality in its fullest is motivating. Information is not just capital, it’s an energy resource.
The best place to have serious attempts to gently break out of reality as we know it accepted or even supported is in academia.
The mindset needed to grow in a good system is gratitude for that it helps you to help others.
The difficulty of being an adult in today's world seems to be that it's the most illusionary time of life. Both before and after, closer to the womb and the tomb, we are closer to reality itself. Maybe it's because the unknown is still bigger than the known.
Progress is what happens after motivation meets information.
We should listen more to young people. The next generation, standing on our shoulders, can see further than we do.
Depicting school as boring amplifies viscous circles of discouragement. Don't do it, because school enables social mobility and societal progress.
In today's world, there is most probably no day, not even an hour, when something, that will affect your life at some point, would not be happening somewhere. Scary for some, mind boggling to others, but others again take it as plain natural.
To today's "giants": Do not expect people to look up to you, unless you are willing to let them stand on your shoulders. To the "ordinary" people: If you'd like to glimpse the view from the shoulders of a giant, you have to start by looking up to them.
We need more rooftop classrooms.
We might never get to the core of the truth, or to "seeing it all", but we may consciously structure and look at everything we know, and draw conclusions from this meta-individual body of knowledge, potentially representative of the whole.
Intuitively stated: the more connections one is aware of, the greater their moral capacity. Yes, in a way: "knowledge is power". But more importantly, in another: knowledge is morality.
Don't believe in reality. Embrace, acknowledge, or accept it for the present, but *believing* is to be preserved for nobler notions, such as the future, progress, and the net positivity of the unknown.
Never fall out of love with learning, never fall out of love with knowledge.
In educating young university students, a fine line must be walked. The educator should convey their knowledge in a manner that makes these youngsters even more curious about, and more ready for the world, whilst leaving their idealism intact.
The fact that you cannot look up to someone doesn't mean that you shouldn't look at them at all.