Glenn

“Existential nausea comes from feeling trapped. It is an affect state resulting from the feeling that the future has only bad options.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson

“had it easy. Because he didn’t have to run a ministry or manage a congregation, he was free to engage people exactly as he found them. He didn’t have to make them do anything for him; thus, he was free to love them and they were free to respond to that love or reject it. He didn’t need their tithes to pay his salary, their attendance to validate his ego, or their time to fill out his program.”
― Wayne Jacobsen, Finding Church: What If There Really Is Something More

“And thanks to all those science projects, I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience.”
― Steve Wozniak, I, Woz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon - Getting to the Core of Apple's Inventor

“It’s not that I’m so smart,” said Einstein, who was a consummate introvert. “It’s that I stay with problems longer.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking