robert lora
December 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM

💬 quotes

words I come back to.

"Give yourself a gift – the present moment."
— Marcus Aurelius
"Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. You get what you repeat."
— James Clear
"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on somebody else's path."
— Joseph Campbell
"Imposter syndrome, at the root of it, is incorrect… because it presumes that other people are thinking about you at all. Nobody is thinking about you."
— Ryan Holiday
"The first minute of action is worth more than a year of perfect planning."
— Unknown
"Fall in love with the problem, not the solution."
— Uri Levine (Waze founder)
"Two is twice as good as one, but one is infinitely better than zero."
— James Clear
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
— Rumi
"The person who learns the most in any classroom is the teacher. If you really want to learn a topic, then 'teach' it."
— James Clear
"Cultivate your calendar like a garden so that it can help you grow."
— Robert Lora (me)
"The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge."
— Aristotle
"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."
— Simone Weil
"Whenever you are stuck searching for the optimal plan, remember: Getting started changes everything."
— Unknown
"Working on a problem reduces the fear of it. Action relieves anxiety."
— Unknown
"The Paradox of Freedom: The way to expand your freedom is to narrow your focus. The disciplined become the free."
— James Clear