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The perfection of moral character consists in this: to spend each day as if it were the last, to be neither agitated nor numb, and not to pretend.
Ward Farnsworth • The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
Francis Bacon put it bluntly, “If a man write little, he had need have a great memory.”[12]
Donald S. Whitney • Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
(Here being a veritable law of bureaucratic administration, it turned out: The more compassionate and effective the high-level official, the more unpleasant and Cerberusian the secretary who barred one’s access to him.)
David Foster Wallace • The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
The measure of what is necessary is what is useful.
Ward Farnsworth • The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
It accounts also for the return of the virtue of politeness, for that also is a nameless thing ignored by logical codes.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
BEYOND PROFESSIONALISM
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Behaving with propriety is the ability to conform to the expectations of those around us, and they in turn conform to our expectations.