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“Here’s a non-geeky framing of the same idea: What if listening to an inner voice or heeding a passion for ethics or beauty were to lead to more important work in the long term, even if it measured as less successful in the moment? What if deeply reaching a small number of people matters more than reaching everybody with nothing?”
― Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

“The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention over and over again is the very root of judgement, character and will. No one is compos sui if he have it not. An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence. WILLIAM JAMES”
― Gay Watson, Attention

“Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead.”
― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

“for my own part I cannot cordially approve, I merely tolerate, a philosopher who talks of setting bounds to the desires. Is it possible for desire to be kept within bounds? It ought to be destroyed, uprooted altogether.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Complete Works of Cicero