Some Summer Quotes

I’m always saving quotes for the podcast or the book or somewhere else. I read like a hawk scanning the ground for a mouse - searching through whatever I’m reading for something that’ll be particularly useful for the folks in Tacklebox / who listen to the pod.

These have been sitting for a while and I haven’t found a home for them yet. But, they might be helpful:

“Where your fear is, there is your task.” – Carl Jung

“Pressure feels like a threat, but it’s not” – Shane Parrish

"Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity." – Ted Chiang

“No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future.” - GE exec Ian Wilson

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” -Seneca

”Calm seas don’t make good sailors” - unknown

“If you’re too lazy to peel garlic, you don’t deserve to eat it” – Anthony Bourdain

“Practice without a feedback loop only results in activity, and not mastery.” - Kunal Shah

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” - Shakespeare (if you’re in NYC, go to this)

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.” - Anton Chekhov

“Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.” - Alexander Graham Bell

“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.” - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky