References
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References
Why with designs for the far future do you weary a mind that is unequal to them?
(Horace–Carmina II.11)
lindaraquelita • A Catalog of Montaigne's Beam Inscriptions
“A good choice may go unrewarded for a long time.
The best choices tend to provide exponential returns and a hallmark of any compounding process is that the greatest rewards are delayed. Things don't really take off until years later.
Keep working. Be patient.”
The best choices tend to provide exponential returns and a hallmark of any compounding process is that the greatest rewards are delayed. Things don't really take off until years later.
Keep working. Be patient.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On saying no, the importance of focus, and reading books
The only certainty is that nothing is certain, and that nothing is less noble or more proud than man.
(Pliny–Naturalis Historia II.5)
lindaraquelita • A Catalog of Montaigne's Beam Inscriptions
As Eugène Guillaume, the director of the Parisian École des Beaux-Arts, summarised it; “the main ingredient of art is taste”.
Evie Hatch • The History of Cast Drawing, and How It Can Help You Draw Form
Social media… it’s just the market’s answer to a generation that demanded to perform, so the market said, ‘Here, perform. Perform everything to each other, all the time, for no reason.’ It’s prison. It’s horrific. Its performer and audience melded together. What do we want more than to lie in our bed at the end of the day and just watch our life as... See more
Could I interest you in everything all of the time? / A little bit of everything all of the time?
[I take for my guide] the ways of the world and the experiences of the senses.
lindaraquelita • A Catalog of Montaigne's Beam Inscriptions
Be no wiser than is necessary, but be wise in moderation. Letter of Paul to the Romans, 12