“Rebecca Solnit put it much the same way…: ‘I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought.’ In other words, thoughts – or souls – can get left behind if their hosts move too quickly.”

“These transmissions are subtle: they are ever-present, but they are easy to miss. If we aren’t looking for clues, they’ll pass us by without us ever knowing. Notice connections and consider where they lead.” — Rick Rubin The Creative Act

“I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought.”

Rebecca Solnit via Travelling At The Speed of Soul

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi

“When you first start to study a field, it seems like you have to memorize a zillion things. You don’t. What you need is to identify the core principles – generally three to twelve of them – that govern the field. The million things you thought you had to memorize are simply various combinations of the core principles.”

— John T. Reed in Succee

“You should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.”

— Elon Musk

Ellen Fishbein consulting Matt Lerner on his manuscript:

“Matt, you’re a good writer, but this is not a good book.”

Ouch.
 

“It doesn’t have a thesis.”

A thesis?

“Every great nonfiction book,” she explained, “presents a focused thesis.” For example: 

The Black Swan - Individual outlier events are rare, but collectively, they occur oft