From the back pages of three notebooks. No attribution where I have lost it. No commentary where the sentence is doing the work.
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
This is the one I write at the top of new notebooks. It is unfair as a piece of advice and accurate as a piece of observation.
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
— Simone Weil
This is the one I read before any meeting that matters.
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
— Howard Thurman
This is the one I keep above the desk.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.
— Richard Feynman
This is the one I read before publishing anything.