“You can’t talk butterfly language with caterpillar people.”

Trish Deseine

Me is overrated
We is underrated

Planning is overrated
Planting is underrated

Answers are overrated
Questions are underrated

Virality is overrated
Quality is underrated

h/t Blas Moros

“Put simply, the brain treats information as a reward in itself; it doesn't matter whether the info is accurate or useful, the brain will still crave it and feel satisfied after consuming it (at least until it starts craving more).”

Gurwinder - The Intellectual Obesity Crisis

“If I can predict all of your beliefs from one of your beliefs, you’re not a serious thinker.” — Chris Williamson

nostalgia is the enemy of progress

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Sylvia Plath

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what."
"My mother didn't love me." So what.
"My husband won't ball me. So what.
"I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what.
I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, b

Changing the answer is evolution, Changing the question is revolution.

—Jorge Wagensberg

“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”

-Charles Bukowski

quote from American Childhood (Annie Dillard):

There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and there for years. People sl