Chadwick Dewey

“as we experience fewer problems, we don’t become more satisfied. We just lower our threshold for what we consider a problem.”
― Michael Easter, The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

“To him who is in fear, everything rustles. —SOPHOCLES”
― Evy Poumpouras, Becoming Bulletproof: Lessons in fearlessness from a former Secret Service Agent

“Whether I'm on a deadline, or I'm distracted by other things going on in my life, or I just need to get through this thing in order to move on to something I'm more passionate about, I will unsheathe the pencil, move a delicious new blank piece of paper into the battlefield, and set myself to drawing in the fight to bring my idea to life.”
― Adam Savage, Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

“nothing we make ever turns out exactly as we imagined; that this is a feature not a bug; and that this is why we do any of it. The trip down any path of creation is not A to B. That would be so boring. Or even A to Z. That’s too predictable. It’s A to way beyond zebra. That’s where the interesting stuff happens. The stuff that confounds our expectations. The stuff that changes us.”
― Adam Savage, Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It