Creative
Real Work
“To get real work done, you have to turn it all off, shut out the world, and commit to single-minded, obsessive, unrelenting focus.” -Brian Greene
The Way We Live
“Our ways of thinking, perceiving and acting as we now know, are not entirely determined by our genes. Nor are they entirely determined through our childhood experiences. We change them through the way we live.” -Nicholas Carr
Think & Memorize
“There is no such thing as memorizing. We can think, we can repeat, we can recall and we can imagine, but we aren’t built to memorize. Rather our brains are designed to think and automatically hold onto what’s important.” -Gabriel Wyner
Perception & Memory
“Every perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.” -Gerald Edelman
Make The Best
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.” -Epictetus
We Make The World
“We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.” -Orison Swett Marden
Our Own Person
“I think that it’s when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn’t look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.” -John McAfee
Heat & Time
“In the elementary equations of the universe, the arrow of time appears only where there is heat…The link between time and heat is therefore fundamental.. Only when there is heat can there be a distinction between past and future.” –Carlo Rovelli