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

“I like to fix motorcycles more than I like to wire houses (even though I could make about twice as much money wiring houses).9 Both practices have internal goods that engage my attention, but fixing bikes is more meaningful because not only the fixing but also the riding of motorcycles answers to certain intuitions I have about human excellence. People who ride motorcycles have gotten something right, and I want to put myself in the service of it, this thing that we do, this kingly sport that is like war made beautiful.”
― Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

“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

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