“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
​— John Wooden.

On people who are INTO it:

Have you ever had the experience, Jerry asks, where you look at something and go, ‘Wow, whoever made that—they were INTO it!’? “That’s what I care about. That’s all I care about. I don’t care about traits or techniques, I don’t care what you do or how you do it—I just want to see people and talk to people and be around peo

French philosopher Simone Weil encourages us to search the root cause:

"All sins are attempts to fill voids."

Someone dumber and lazier than you is making 10x the money because they are too dumb to doubt themselves.” - Kyle Harrison via Trevor McKendrick newsletter

"Without goals, training has no direction." - Natalie Coughlin

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." - Max Lucado

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

-Jack Kornfeld

The most human part of humanity is not our animal instincts nor our computer-like rationality, but our mutual social creation of meanings and values around arbitrary choices.

do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you

-rumi

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” ​― James Baldwin