I realized recently that what one thinks about in the shower in the morning is more important than I'd thought. I knew it was a good time to have ideas. Now I'd go further: now I'd say it's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower.
—Paul Graham
If I had to put the recipe for genius into one sentence, that might be it: to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters.
—Paul Graham
Far from being meaningless, the humdrum and the commonplace may actually hold the secret of life.
—Mike Mason
There are all kinds of cheat codes lying around, but they usually look boring. People will routinely ignore things that already work for the hope of a slightly easier path. The cheat code is the work you're avoiding.
—JAMES CLEAR
If you want to make something that truly changes the world —even in a small way —you need to be consumed by it.
—Zach Progob
Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.
—Virginia Woolf
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
