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“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“Does that photo of Elon Musk give you fuzzy feelings of balance? The fact is, balance is another SCRIPTED trap.”
― M.J. DeMarco, UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship

“The biggest advantage that Android has over iOS is that Android has absolutely no review process whereas updating an app on iOS can sometimes take a few days. You can quietly launch your app on Android and update your app multiple times a day if you want.”
― Alex Genadinik, Mobile App Marketing And Monetization: How To Promote Mobile Apps Like A Pro: Learn to promote and monetize your Android or iPhone app. Get hundreds of thousands of downloads & grow your app business

“We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.”
― Eric Hoffer

“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”
― Edward Abbey

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Reduce wants and needs from the marketplace to a minimum to decouple the buy-work connection. Decrease the volume and size but increase the sophistication of your activities and possessions. Measure prosperity by less activity, not more. Do fewer useless things. Work for the purpose of earning money for no more than five years of your life or five hours a week. Avoid generating waste and find ways to use the waste of others. Learn to use the system to your advantage, but don't be evil! Serve yourself rather than having others serve you. Instead, help them.”
― Jacob Lund Fisker, Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence

“Clouds never truly disappear. They change form. They turn into rain and become part of the ocean, and then evaporate and return to being clouds.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“Art is a circulation of energetic ideas. What makes them appear new is that they’re combining differently each time they come back. No two clouds are the same.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hustle is relentlessly pursuing what needs to be done at the time.”
― Dan Norris, The 7 Day Startup: You Don't Learn Until You Launch

“Always favor a name that’s simple. Even if it doesn’t mean anything, being simple makes it memorable. Eventually it will mean something.”
― Dan Norris, The 7 Day Startup: You Don't Learn Until You Launch

“Even now one is ashamed of resting, and prolonged reflection almost gives people a bad conscience One thinks with a watch in one’s hand, even as one eats one’s midday meal while reading the latest news of the stock market; one lives as if one always “might miss out on something.” “Rather do anything than nothing”: this principle, too, is merely a string to throttle all culture and good taste.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science with a Prelude in Rhymes & an Appendix of Songs

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom’,”
― Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

“Seneca put it, life does not pause to remind you that it is running out.”
― Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

“Over the centuries, this interpretation and reinterpretation creates a long chain connecting a writer to all future readers- who frequently read each other as well as the original. Virginia Woolf had a beautiful vision of generations interlinked in this way: of how "minds are threaded together- how any live mind is of the very same stuff as Plato's & Euripides... It is this common mind that binds the whole world together; & all the world is mind." This capacity for living on through readers' inner worlds over long periods of history is what makes a book like the 'Essays' a true classic. As it is reborn differently in each mind, it also brings those minds together.”
― Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer