On Doing

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. — Gustave Flaubert, 1876

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.”

Whenever you chicken out, you don't just feel the pain of cowardice; you miss out on the pleasure of courage.

The formulas for “success” and “failure” are the same It’s the application of small actions/inactions consistently over a long time horizon The difference between these two are the infinite small decisions you make on a daily basis - those little wins compound in dramatic ways

“There is a big difference between being interested in something and being committed to something.

Committed people do what interested people won’t.”

The laziest engineers I went to school with and later worked with were always so damn good https://t.co/QHU9TSKTV6

"The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. I believe that it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him … we must live for the future, not for our own comfort or success.” – Admiral Rickover

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"