Shun

“The key to developing a deep work habit is to move beyond good intentions and add routines and rituals to your working life designed to minimize the amount of your limited willpower necessary to transition into and maintain a state of unbroken concentration.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness.”
― Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd; study of the popular mind

“The near-simultaneous disappearance of so many large species raises an obvious question: what caused it? An obvious possible answer is that they were killed off or else eliminated indirectly by the first arriving humans. Recall”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel

“The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought. The reason these great events are so rare is that there is nothing so stable in a race as the inherited groundwork of its thoughts.”
― Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd; study of the popular mind