Freedom to pursue the futile. And the freedom to suck without caring is revelatory.” Results aren’t everything. Indeed, they’d better not be, because results always come later—and later is always too late.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Something—our limited talents, our limited time, our limited control over events, and over the actions of other people—will always render our creation less than perfect.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
We fail to see, or refuse to accept, that any attempt to bring our ideas into concrete reality must inevitably fall short of our dreams, no matter how brilliantly we succeed in carrying things off—because reality, unlike fantasy, is a realm in which we don’t have limitless control, and can’t possibly hope to meet our perfectionist standards. Someth... See more