The world is losing the ability to focus.
The way you get creative jobs is through people you know.
A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.
The salvation of man is through love and in love.
Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.
Write down every idea that comes into your head. If it’s a good idea, you’ll remember it.
You are, in fact, a mashup of what you let into your life.
Relationships, over transactions.
We can either make our choices deliberately or allow other people’s agendas to control our lives.
Your best customer is one who’s not just satisfied, but delighted.
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
In the eyes of the universe, it makes not the slightest difference how you filled your five minutes.
Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love, is the sum of what you focus on.
Rowan's note
Rereads like a warning label for the internet.
What we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore play in defining the quality of our life.
To simply wait and be bored has become a novel experience in modern life.
Rowan's note
Tried a boredom fast for a week. Miserable. Worth it.
Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.
Don’t copy the competition. Learn from them.
Interruption is the enemy of productivity.
Vampires drain you; keep them at a distance.
I judg’d it convenient to be at first, if possible, thought a prudent, sensible man.