Quotes

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why why.
- Mark Twain

She doesn't think the world owes her happiness, which is no small accomplishment growing up in this country.
- Gabriel to Elizabeth in The Americans

Some people hate the game, some love it, and others miss the point.

Slow is Smooth. Smooth is Fast.

Craft is where I get fulfillment. Craft is where I impact the world. Craft is where I gain autonomy over my professional life [...] It all comes back down to craft.
- Cal Newport

Who we cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.
- The Medieval Quarry Workers' Creed

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

This stuff just flies through the air. They send this information out and it's just beamed out all over the place. All you have to do is know how to grab it. See, I know how to grab it.
- Kelso to Neil in Heat

Siddhartha does nothing, he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he passes through the things of the world like a rock through water, without doing anything, without stirring; he is drawn, he lets himself fall. His goal attracts him, because he doesn't let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal. This is what Siddartha has learned among the Samanas. This is what fools call magic...
- Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
- Brutus to Cassius in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar