Emily Maxson

“Because everybody is doing it.” That’s the same logic that got fifty million Nickelback albums sold. People who post twenty times a day are kidding themselves when they pretend they can do long-form thought while also being interrupted constantly to let people know they’re thinking. Social media isn’t free; it always costs you something. I’ve decided to bomb Snapchat.”
― Jon Acuff, Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done

“getting an adequate grasp on the world, intellectually, depends on our doing stuff in it.”
― Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

“The Rubicon, we know, was a very insignificant stream to look at; its significance lay entirely in certain invisible conditions.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“The bias of human nature to be slow in correspondence triumphs even over the present quickening in the general pace of things:”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch