Read often.
Write down regularly.
Re-evaluate at intervals.
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Take the stairs.
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Actual costs are often twice the listed price.
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Buy a tourist guidebook to your home town or region.
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Don't wait in line, it's rarely worth it.
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Be consciously inflexible with minor things like clothing, so you can be more flexible where it's important.
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Insurance companies are not on your side.
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The more you give, the more you get.
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Health is the most important asset you have.
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Restrictions are good, they will give you freedom.
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Be frugal no matter how much you think you have.
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You don't control what happens, you control how you respond.
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Pressure and persuasion results in the strengthening or adoption of a contrary belief.
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Just getting older is not an achievement.
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If you are alive, that means you still have lessons to learn.
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If you don't write it down, you will forget it.
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Your growth as a conscious being is the number of uncomfortable conversations you are willing to have.
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Don't keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.
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It is easier to change your thinking by changing your behavior than vice versa.
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You often do easy things to avoid the hard things.
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That thing that made you weird, could make you great.
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You are what you do, not what you tell or think you are.
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What you consume and spend your time on influences your thoughts and behavior.
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What you do on your bad days matters more than what you do on your good days.
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Read more books. Literature at best. Self-help at worst.
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Copying others is a good way to start but not to end.
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Treating a person to a meal never fails.
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Forgiveness is not something we do for others; it is a gift to ourselves.
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Hate is the poison you drink and hope that someone else might die.
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Accept compliments, don't deflect them.
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You can't reason someone who can't reason.
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Being extremely polite to rude people is the best response.
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Getting cheated occasionally is a small price, because when you trust, they generally treat you best.
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Don't treat people as bad as they are. Treat them as good as you are.
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You see only a small part of another person, and they see only a small part of you.
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Promptness is a sign of respect.
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For the best present spend only half the money you think you should, but double the time with them.
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Loan and don't expect it to get it back. Borrow something and return more.
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Ultimately, you can't change others.
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Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities.
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Make eye contact.
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Apologize quickly, specifically, sincerely.
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It's not an apology if it comes with an excuse.
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It is not a compliment if it comes with a request.
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Anything you say before the word “but” does not count.
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Criticize in private, praise in public.
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Elevate good behavior rather than punish bad behavior.
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Before speaking ask yourself: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?
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Speak confidently as if you are right, but listen carefully as if you are wrong.
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A dumb person, who can communicate well, can do much better than a smart person who can't communicate well but it's much easier to improve communication skills than intelligence.
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"Yes and" instead of "No but"
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Understand the 80/20 rule.
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Most people don't care about their job like you do.
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Always try to do things which you are unqualified for.
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Don't be the smartest person in the room.
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When you are stuck, explain your problem to others.
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Don't keep fighting the old; build the new.
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Work is endless, your time is not, so restrict your time working.
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Separate creation from improvement.
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Work to become, not to acquire.
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All of us seek ultimately the approval of others.
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Don't worry how or where you begin.
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Humans shouldn't write code.
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The best line of code is the one not written.
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The second best line of code is the one you can delete.
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Invest time in learning the basic tools of the trade, it often correlates to the overall skill as developer.
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SQL is the most important tool at your disposal.
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ORMs are always a mistake.
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Spend more time on the design of parts that are one-way doors. Ideally, try to make more like two-way doors.
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A good architect finds balance between abstraction and the complexity it inherently introduces.
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Sharing code as a library is often the wrong, duplication the right choice. It's better to trade verbosity for flexibility.
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Always start with the most simplistic approach.
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It’s quicker to write ten big balls of mud and see where it gets you than try to polish a single turd.
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Don't fall into the trap that one module must be responsible for one thing only, instead it should solve one problem.
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If you don't know what you are doing or even wrong, at least be consistent.
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Keep things that change more often from things that change less often or from the things which are more difficult to change.
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A loosely coupled system is one where you can delete parts without rewriting others.
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Loose coupling is about being able to change your mind without changing too much code.
