Shane Parrish
72 quotes.
Quotes by Shane Parrish
- A calm mind is not the absence of conflict or stress, but the ability to cope with it.
- A great advantage can be found in accepting hard truths faster than others.
- Action builds resilience. Inaction stokes fear.
- Amateurs believe that the world should work the way they want it to. Professionals realize that they have to work with the world as they find it.
- Amateurs blame others. Professionals accept responsibility.
- Amateurs give up at the first sign of trouble and assume they’re failures. Professionals see failure as part of the path to growth and mastery.
- Anyone can do it once. The best do it consistently.
- Be average at the things you do once and exceptional at the things you do often.
- Boring progress today makes exceptional outcomes in the future.
- Comparing yourself to others is a guaranteed prescription for misery.
- Consistency finishes what intensity starts.
- Decisions are nothing without execution.
- Distance yourself from people that you don’t want to become.
- Do something that doesn’t feel good now to feel good later.
- Don’t trade integrity for money.
- Every choice you make is a step toward or away from the person you want to become. No single choice will get you where you want to go. Only repeated steps over time in the same direction will move you forward.
- Everything you desire is infinitely small compared to what you already have.
- Failure hurts but passes quickly. Regret hurts forever.
- Goals are for signalling. Systems are for winning.
- Goals give direction. Systems deliver results.
- If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll be waiting the rest of your life.
- If you want better outcomes, learn to do the boring work when no one is watching.
- If you want new ideas, read old books.
- If you want to be average, focus on the performance. If you want to be the best, focus on making practice harder than performance.
- If you want to do more you have to commit to less. Raise the standards. Narrow the focus.
- In the short run, lying is easy and honesty is hard. In the long run, honesty is easy and lying is hard. What you choose today makes your tomorrow.
- Intelligent people know how to get what they want. Wise people know what’s worth wanting.
- It’s better to start something and risk looking like an idiot than sit there and accomplish nothing.
- It’s not your fault, but it’s your responsibility to do something about it.
- Lean into (not away from) what’s making you uncomfortable.
- Let other people’s hindsight become your foresight.
- Life’s greatest rewards are reserved for those who help others succeed.
- Never let anyone else tell you what is possible.
- Often the best decisions have no immediate payoff. The best choices tend to compound. Most of the benefits come at the end, not the beginning. The more patient you are, the bigger the payoff.
- Over a long enough timeline you get what you give. Go positive and go first.
- Patience is more important to success than brilliance.
- People who don’t have time to learn always find time to make the same mistakes again and again. They go fast but not far.
- Perseverance solves more problems than brilliance.
- Reading: One of the best ways to upgrade human software.
- Short-term results come from intensity. Long-term results come from consistency.