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“My dear, they must always offer something, even if it is small, even if only wine poured at your spring, else they will forget to be grateful, after.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Ironically, jobs are actually easier to enjoy than free time, because like flow activities they have built-in goals, feedback rules, and challenges, all of which encourage one to become involved in one’s work, to concentrate and lose oneself in it. Free time, on the other hand, is unstructured, and requires much greater effort to be shaped into something that can be enjoyed.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“the practice of giving of your time and attention, without expectation of something in return, as a key strategy in professional advancement.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“I am not busy. I am the laziest ambitious person I know.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Stuff accumulates in people’s lives, in part, because when faced with a specific act of elimination it’s easy to worry, “What if I need this one day?,” and then use this worry as an excuse to keep the item in question sitting around.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“I’ll live the focused life, because it’s the best kind there is.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Every interesting thing I’ve ever done, every important thing I’ve ever done, every beneficial thing I’ve ever done, has been through a cascade of experiments and mistakes and failures,”
― Brad Stone, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

“Their philosophy was that you should not always trust your senses and sense experience in order to understand the world, but should rely ultimately on logic and mathematics.”
― Jim Al-Khalili, Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

“He who is most content with the least has the most,” and “I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.”
― Jim Al-Khalili, Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics