What seems like a difference in talent often comes down to a difference in focus. Focus turns good performers into great performers. Two keys to focus are saying no to distractions and working on the same problem for an uncommonly long time. Both are simple but not easy.
— Farnam Street
In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught
— Baba Dioum, a Senegalese forest ranger as quoted in book “A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters”
“García Lorca sought the sharp experience of life that is realized only by a heightened awareness of our own mortality.”
— Alex Green
“… He said the best art reminds us that we are all living “on the rim of the well.”
It is not the world as it should be which puts an end to the real world, but the world as it is
— Jean Baudrillard
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
— Henry James