Minimize that circumstances that effect/impact/hinder you from achieving your goal
Quotex
The art of the possible
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive.
When the best way forward is far from clear, you ask yourself what you could do to make things worse, and then avoid doing those things.
Beautiful things don't ask for attention
Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. -> "Kill them. For the Lord knows those that are His own."
An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.
Real greatness is making everything before you arrived, obsolete and everything after, change. (Having a real impact)
The biggest revolutionary countercultural movement in western society, and perhaps in the world, is Salafi jihadism.
Always hard focus yourself to do the right thing.
You're most exploitable in your routine.
Nothing good ends well, or it would never end.
Prolong the fight and compound the resentment.
If you don't execute smart, you've got nothing. But luck works every single time.
The enemy gets a vote
Prepare for the most likely threat, as well as the most dangerous.
Face the demands of life, voluntarily. You respond to a challenge, instead of bracing for a catastrophe.
We aren't working with complex money, we're working with complex data.
We're interacting with reality every day. It's coming.