Danielle Farkas

“You’re no help,” he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“humans are a strange lot. We have the power to analyze and explore the world around us, yet panic as soon as the evidence threatens to violate our expectations”
― Frans de Waal, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

“Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World