“No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.”

— Daniel Kahneman

No, my worry is that, you won’t put enough really excellent stuff into your brain. I’m talking about what you might call the “theory of maximum taste.” This theory is based on the idea that exposure to genius has the power to expand your consciousness. If you spend a lot of time with genius, your mind will end up bigger and broader than if you spen

“Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union.”

— Kent Nerburn

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The happiest people want the lowest profile.” —Farnam Street

“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”

— Howard Aiken

Our job in higher ed isn’t to identify a top 1 percent of people who are freakishly remarkable or who have rich parents, and turn them into a super class of billionaires. It’s to give the bottom 90 a chance to be in the top 10.

—Scott Galloway

Social media doesn’t just make people feel worse about themselves; it makes us worse people.

—Freya India

Leon Kass:  “Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder.”

From Jonathan Haidt