Ray Dalio on Deep Work Quotes

"Don’t confuse goals with desires."

"The biggest mistake most people make is not seeing themselves and others objectively."

"Radical open-mindedness and radical transparency are invaluable for rapid learning."

"Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life."

"Choose your habits well."

"Maturity is the ability to reject good alternatives in order to pursue even better ones."

"Don't let fears of what others think of you stand in your way."

"Look at the patterns of those things that affect you."

"Distinguish between you as the designer of your machine and you as a worker with your machine."

"To get what you want, you have to be a hyper-realist."

"Evolution is the single greatest force in the universe; it is the only thing that is permanent and it drives everything."

"People who worry about looking good typically hide what they don’t know."

"The most important thing is to be able to think for yourself."

"The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you’ll be."

"The most important thing is that you develop your own principles and ideally write them down."

"Identify the problem and don’t tolerate it."

"Meditation has been the single most important reason for whatever success I’ve had."

"The quality of your life depends on the quality of the decisions you make."

"Pain + Reflection = Progress."

"Reality + Dreams + Determination = A Successful Life."

"Look at the machine from the higher level."

"If you can’t successfully do something, don’t think you can tell others how it should be done."

"Understand that you have nothing to fear from truth."

"Weaknesses don’t matter if you find solutions."

"By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn’t care what you like."

"Create a machine that works."

"The key is to fail, learn, and improve quickly."

"Think for yourself to decide 1) what you want, 2) what is true, and 3) what you should do to achieve #1 in light of #2."

"I just want to be right—I don’t care if the right answer comes from me."

"History taught me that. If you don't look at the patterns, you're going to be surprised."

"To be effective you must not let your need to be right be more important than your need to find out what's true."

"Success comes from knowing what you don't know, more than from what you do know."