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“I’d say, ‘Trane, man, why are you doing that, beating on your chest and howling in the microphone?’” Ali remembered in an interview. “He’d say, ‘Man, I can’t find nothing else to play on the horn.’ He exhausted the saxophone. He couldn’t find nothing else to play … he ran out of horn.”
― Ben Ratliff, Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

“The job of a journalist would be unbearable if one was always to put oneself in the shoes of a subject.”
― Ryan Holiday, Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue

“In a sane system, a political article that generated thousands of comments would be an indicator that something went wrong. It means the conversation descended into an unproductive debate about abortion or immigration, or devolved into mere complaining. But in the broken world of the web, it is the mark of a professional.”
― Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

“Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be.”
― Jason Fried, It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work