Sett Wai

“It’s human to want what we need, and it’s human to desire what we don’t need but find desirable.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Tests that measure a person’s capacity to manage many problems at the expense of depth suit an economic regime that prizes quick study, superficial knowledge, all too often embodied by consultants who dart in and out of organizations. The craftsman’s ability to dig deep stands at the pole opposite from potential ability deployed in this fashion.”
― Richard Sennett, The Craftsman

“THERE WAS A MOMENT ON EARTH, improbable in retrospect and actually briefer than a moment in the span of human history, more like the blink of an eye, when it was possible to make a living solely by photographing and interviewing famous people.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“A healthy obsession, we could say, interrogates its own driving convictions.”
― Richard Sennett, The Craftsman