On Doing
“Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.”
Packy McCormick • Vertical Integrators
The laziest engineers I went to school with and later worked with were always so damn good https://t.co/QHU9TSKTV6
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
— Gustave Flaubert, 1876
Dylan O'Sullivanx.com
Mary Oliver on avoiding regrets:
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
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I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing…
— Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road"
David Sherryx.com
Whenever you chicken out, you don't just feel the pain of cowardice; you miss out on the pleasure of courage.