Miscellaneous quotes and collected thoughts

Here are some collected thoughts and quotes I grabbed overtime from different places.

“The cold water doesn't get warmer if you jump late.” 

“You don't need more intensity; you need more consistency. Intensity impresses; consistency transforms.”

“We want the outcome, but we need the journey."

Your body reflects what you eat. Your mind reflects what you consume. 

For a healthy body, choose whole foods. For a sharp mind, choose lasting knowledge. 

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”

It is not necessary to agree on everything in order to show kindness. Calm silence, sincerity, and courteous words, whether one is agreeing or disagreeing with others, mark the person who knows how to behave.

“Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that's why life is hard.” 

— Jeremy Goldberg 

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

So much can be accomplished in one focused hour, especially when that hour is part of a routine, a sacred rhythm that becomes part of your daily life.

“The truth shrinks as the crowd grows. Smaller groups are more likely to find truth than larger ones.” 

“No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.” 

— Daniel Kahneman 

“The best way to think is to write.” 

“You don't need more intensity, you need more consistency. Intensity impresses; consistency transforms.” 

“The right time was yesterday. The best time is now.” 

Time expands when we eliminate interruptions—our attention, not the clock, ultimately limits what we can achieve.

Data Noise Vs Signal ratio:

The more frequently you look at data, the more noise you are disproportionally likely to get (rather than the valuable part, called the signal); hence the higher the noise-to-signal ratio. 

And there is a confusion which is not psychological at all, but inherent in the data itself. Say you look at the information on a yearly basis, for stock prices, or the fertilizer sales of your father-in-law’s factory, or inflation numbers in Vladivostok. Assume further that for what you are observing, at a yearly frequency, the ratio of signal to noise is about one to one (half noise, half signal)—this means that about half the changes are real improvements or degradations, the other half come from randomness. This ratio is what you get from yearly observations. 

But if you look at the very same data on a daily basis, the composition would change to 95 percent noise, 5 percent signal. And if you observe data on an hourly basis, as people immersed in the news and market price variations do, the split becomes 99.5 percent noise to 0.5 percent signal. That is two hundred times more noise than signal—which is why anyone who listens to news (except when very, very significant events take place) is one step below sucker.