Inspiring Quotes From My Diary

Zeeshan Shaikh
3 min readMar 27, 2021
  • Attitude is far more important than talent. Talent will help you succeed. Attitude will help you face tough situations. — Anonymous
  • Perfection is the enemy of getting things done. — Anonymous
  • Ship your work, get feedback, improve. — Anonymous
  • If you wait until your work is perfect, you’ll wait forever.
  • Done is better than perfect.
  • “Noah did not start building the ark when it was raining” — Warren Buffet
  • The best way to look at the chessboard is from outside the chessboard- Kunal Shah
  • Never stop doing what made you successful. People get to a certain level of success and become too comfortable — “The Compound Effect
  • The Socratic method (also known as the method of Elenchus, elenctic method, or Socratic debate) is a form of a cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presuppositions.
  • It is named after the Classical Greek philosopher Socrates and is introduced by him in Plato’s Theaetetus as midwifery (maieutics) because it is employed to bring out definitions implicit in the interlocutors’ beliefs or to help them further their understanding.
  • The Socratic method is a method of hypothesis elimination, in that better hypotheses, are found by steadily identifying and eliminating those that lead to contradictions.
  • Love always elevates the character of a man. It never lowers him, provided love be love — Bhagat Singh
  • You don’t feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent, so when the stock goes down you shouldn’t feel thirty percent dumber- Jeff Bezos (to his employees when Amazon stocks went down)
  • “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have laboured hard for.”- Socrates
  • Life is not a zero-sum game. If one person wins, it doesn’t mean that someone else needs to lose. If only one side wins, it creates a dent in the relationships. In the long-run, no one wins if the relationships keep breaking. Ideally, you want everyone to win. If you can have that attitude and allow everyone to win, life flourishes.
  • If you believe in trying to make the best of the finite number of years we have on this planet (while not making it any worse for anyone else), think that pride and self-righteousness are the cause of most conflict and negativity, and are humbled by the vastness and mystery of the Universe, then I’m the same religion as you. — Sal Khan from khan academy
  • Don’t Be Lonely, Be alone. Embrace Solitude, it will take you places.
  • “LEARN OR DIE”- EDWARD D.HESS
  • “It should be a total war, not a skirmish” — Rajan Singh (IITian, Ex-IPS officer-India)
  • our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time -Thoma Edison
  • Done is better than perfect — Mark Zuckerberg

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Zeeshan Shaikh

Software Developer with 6+ years of experience in Java and web technologies. Health and Fitness enthusiast.