Plasma

“I AM AN OLD NOBODY AND I LOVE WHAT I DO”
― Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“The knowledge of the ancients was perfect. How perfect? I will tell you. At first they did not yet know that there were things. This is the most perfect knowledge; nothing can be added. Next they knew things but did not yet make distinctions between them. Next they made distinctions between them but did not yet pass judgements upon them. When judgement was passed, Tao was destroyed. With the destruction of Tao, individual preferences come into being.”
― Raymond M. Smullyan, The Tao Is Silent: A Whimsical and Sophisticated Guide to Eastern Philosophy and Inner Serenity

“If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World