“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” — Thomas Jefferson
Do not mistake a “confident explanation” for an “accurate prediction” — a lot of what you hear can be summarized as: confident, but inaccurate.
“One of life’s counterintuitive lessons is that you will often gain energy by spending a little bit of energy — If you want to get your day going, then get your body going. It’s harder for the mind to be sluggish when the body is moving.”
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” — Cormac McCarthy
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” — Mark Twain → Ability is nothing without action.
