
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
Variant: Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Source: Walden and Other Writings
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 159
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
Variant: Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Source: Walden and Other Writings
“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
Variant: In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
“Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 16
“Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.”
Radio Paul's Radio Rants (September 17th, 2012)
“Contrary to popular opinion, mathematics is about simplifying life, not complicating it.”
Source: The (Mis)Behavior of Markets (2004, 2008), Ch. 7, p. 125
Context: Contrary to popular opinion, mathematics is about simplifying life, not complicating it. A child learns a bag of candies can be shared fairly by counting them out: That is numeracy. She abstracts that notion to dividing a candy bar into equal pieces: arithmetic. Then, she learns how to calculate how much cocoa and sugar she will need to make enough chocolate for fifteen friends: algebra.
“Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.”
Source: Now, Discover Your Strengths (2001), p. 8