purpose

To illustrate the difference between art and technique, he tells the story of two people who each make a glass cup: the first person designs a fine, functional glass from which one can drink perfectly, but the second person, an artisan, creates another glass cup that is so special, it generates an emotional reaction.

The Greeks would say the second... See more

Approach the chaos of change with the clarity of purpose. Don’t let the machines take your job; put them to work for you. 

You only live once, and you get to live in the most magical time.

Conviction is an extension of self-knowledge. It emerges from your experiences and prior conditions. To know that is to know yourself. Being someone with conviction is really just living with clarity, and everything else is downstream of this self-knowledge.

when someone tells me to keep writing, it feels like a command to keep living.