Kevin Kelly

Don’t measure your life with someone else’s ruler.

Figure out what time of day you are most productive and protect that time period.

Your goal is to be able to say, on the day before you die that you have fully become yourself.

If you are not falling down occasionally, you are just coasting.

Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.

The trick to making wise decisions is to evaluate your choice as if you were looking back 25 years from today. What would your future self think?

Greatness is incompatible with optimizing in the short term. To achieve greatness requires a long view. Raise your time horizon to raise your goal.

Habit is far more dependable than inspiration. Make progress by making habits. Don’t focus on getting in shape. Focus on becoming the kind of person who never misses a workout.

You don’t have to attend every argument you’re invited to.

When you feel like quitting, just do five more: 5 more minutes, 5 more pages, 5 more steps. Then repeat. Sometimes you can break through and keep going, but even if you can’t, you ended five ahead. Tell yourself that you will quit tomorrow, but not today.

Don’t measure your life with someone else’s ruler.

Five years from now, you will wish you had started today.

The purpose of a habit is to remove that action from self-negotiation. You no longer expend energy deciding whether to do it. You just do it. Good habits can range from telling the truth to flossing.

The advantage of a ridiculously ambitious goal is that it sets the bar very high so even if your effort falls short, it may exceed an ordinary success.