“We shape our tools and our tools shape us. The problem occurs when we allow the shaping to go completely unremarked upon, when we lazily assume the inevitability of this and acquiesce obliviously to its logic.” — Thomas J Bevan
“The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch. He takes on the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters, compel him to explore unconscious parts of himself.” — Steven Pressfield
“Professionals don’t have to justify spending time training or practicing their work. It’s what they do, and practice is how they get good at it.” — Ryan Holiday
“The true path is along a rope, not a rope suspended way up in the air, but rather only just over the ground. It serves more like a tripwire than a tightrope.” — Franz Kafka
“An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.” — Epictetus
“When a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” — Neil Postman