Meredith

“Lining up in a row with their hands on their hips like a row of teapots.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“Yes, words matter, and to some extent they even shape our reality. But in the end, what you do matters far more.”
― Rutger Bregman, Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference

“It’s alarming to face the prospect that you might never truly feel as though you know what you’re doing, in work, marriage, parenting, or anything else. But it’s liberating, too, because it removes a central reason for feeling self-conscious or inhibited about your performance in those domains in the present moment: if the feeling of total authority is never going to arrive, you might as well not wait any longer to give such activities your all—to put bold plans into practice, to stop erring on the side of caution. It is even more liberating to reflect that everyone else is in the same boat, whether they’re aware of it or not.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“The last thing we need is blind optimism about technology.”
― Rutger Bregman, Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference