It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.
Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate strains and stresses, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great engineer is the man who can tell whether the bridge or the machine should be built at all, where it should be built, and when.
If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.
Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.
We're going to put Hulu ahead of you, unless you pay up
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.