Gregory

“We must go for walks out of doors, so that the mind can be strengthened and invigorated by a clear sky and plenty of fresh air. At times it will acquire fresh energy from a journey by carriage and a change of scene, or from socializing and drinking freely. Occasionally we should even come to the point of intoxication, sinking into drink but not being totally flooded by it; for it does wash away cares, and stirs the mind to its depths, and heals sorrow just as it heals certain diseases.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

“I’ve got everything I need. That’s the definition of affluence.”
― Lee Child, Worth Dying For

“Ask any psychologist how much of a sense of past and future that part of your psyche has, the part that was storing the list you dumped: zero. It's all present tense in there. That means that as soon as you tell yourself that you should do something, if you file it only in your short-term memory, there's a part of you that thinks you should be doing it all the time. And that means that as soon as you've given yourself two things to do, and filed them only in your head, you've created instant and automatic stress and failure, because you can't do them both at the same time. If you're like most people, you've probably got some storage area at home—maybe a garage that you told yourself a while back (maybe even six years ago!) you ought to clean and organize. If so, there's a part of you that likely thinks you should've been cleaning your garage twenty-four hours a day for the past six years! No wonder people are so tired! And have you heard that little voice inside your own mental committee every time you walk by your garage? "Why are we walking by the garage?! Aren't we supposed to be cleaning it!?" Because you can't stand that whining, nagging part of yourself, you never even go in the garage anymore if you can help it.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“Wykup swój umysł z lombardu autorytetów. Zaakceptuj fakt, że nie jesteś wszechwiedzący, ale odgrywanie zombi nie zapewni ci wszechwiedzy — że twój umysł jest zawodny, ale pozbycie się go nie uczyni cię niezawodnym — że jeden własny błąd jest bezpieczniejszy niż dziesięć prawd przyjętych na wiarę, bo ten pierwszy pozostawia ci środki do naprawienia go, ostatnie zaś niszczą w tobie zdolność odróżnienia prawdy od błędu.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged