The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
If you don’t prioritize, everything seems urgent and important.
If you define the single most important task for each day, almost nothing seems urgent or important.
Oftentimes, it’s just a matter of letting little bad things happen (return a phone call late and apologize, pay a small late fee, lose an unreasonable customer, etc.) to get the big important things done.
The answer to overwhelm is not spinning more plates—or doing more—it’s defining the few things that can really fundamentally change your business and life.
Funny how most restaurants are full of male chefs, but at home it's magically a woman's duty... basically when it's an unpaid job, it's for women. when it's profitable suddenly it is a man's passion.
stellan skarsgård saying “in the cinema where the lights go down and you share a pulse with some other people, that’s magic. cinema should be seen in cinemas.” #GoldenGlobes
One of the most powerful images of the Iranian revolution against tyranny is that of an Iranian young woman burning Khamenei’s portrait ، and lighting her cigarette with it.
Rule of thumb: Fix hardware (sleep, exercise, diet) or power adapter (environment) before software (psychology). 95% of my software issues get fixed when I do this. And the remaining 5% is easier to debug.
incredible the difference mere hours after the child social media ban. Four boys on my street started a journey from their treehouse to find the body of a missing kid in the wilderness. Along the way, they're learning about themselves, & the meaning of friendship. Great to see