Quotes I’m Pondering
(Tim Ferriss: July 14–July 27, 2017)
“I happen to be in a very tough business where there are no alibis. It is good or it is bad, and the thousand reasons that interfere with a book being as good as possible are no excuses if it is not. . . . Taking refuge in domestic successes, being good to your broke friends, etc., is merely a form of quitting.”
–Ernest Hemingway
Renowned American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist
“Poets do not ‘fit’ into society, not because a place is denied them but because they do not take their ‘places’ seriously. They openly see its roles as theatrical, its styles as poses, its clothing costumes, its rules conventional, its crises arranged, its conflicts performed, and its metaphysics ideological.”
–James P. Carse
Professor emeritus of history and literature of religion at New York University, author of Finite and Infinite Games
“Be the silence that listens.”
–Tara Brach
Teacher of meditation and emotional healing, author of Radical Acceptance