I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.
Let's try and fail because through failure you learn
You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.
I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.
Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes.
Love isn't who you can see yourself with. It's who you can't see yourself without.
To find yourself, you must first lose yourself
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
Enlightenment is not so much a hard-won achievement, much less a "creation," but instead is deep relaxation and recovery of our natural condition. You come to see the evolution of the soul, the soul's journey, as a realization of what has always been there in the first place.
The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.
And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.