It’s staggering how expectations can alter how you interpret current circumstances.
— Morgan Housel (Getting the Goalpost to Stop Moving)
What’s boring doesn’t get attention and what’s exciting doesn’t drive results. Most people are so focused on optics they forget that it’s the repetition of the boring basics that makes a difference.
— Farnam Street
Perhaps the greatest lesson I’ve learned is that hate thrives when you do not know what people are thinking, so you assume their thoughts for them … That’s why I aim to live by this simple mantra: As long as you don’t give me reason to conclude that you’re a racist, then you’re not one. That way I don’t see hate where there is none, and I make no assumptions of hostility when a more suitable reason exists … But if you do give me reason to conclude that you’re a racist, then you will be ignored or confronted, depending on the situation.
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.”