Niklas Forsstroem

“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“We do not overidentify with our jobs. We may take pride in our work, we may stay late and come in on weekends, but we recognize that we are not our job descriptions. The amateur, on the other hand, overidentifies with his avocation, his artistic aspiration. He defines himself by it. He is a musician, a painter, a playwright. Resistance loves this. Resistance knows that the amateur composer will never write his symphony because he is overly invested in its success and overterrified of its failure. The amateur takes it so seriously it paralyzes him.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings, who think themselves good because they have crippled paws!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra