“Positively occupying one’s time is also a matter of health, both physical and mental.” – pg. 34
“If things are relatively calm, we the people will come up with any old bullshit to squabble about, because it’s in our nature.” – pg. 45
“Follow-through is what produces the backspin on a basketball shot, that stabilizing centrifugal force that allows a greater level of consistency to be realized in one’s shooting percentage. The same technique can be applied to any task one undertakes in life.” – pg. 48
“If you don’t like the rules as they apply to your art, then break the rules.” – pg. 111
“The evils of society are pervasive enough to drive a person to fight, even though he knows he shouldn’t.” – pg. 143
“We humans are complicated and messy animals in many ways.” – pg. 191
“The people who inspire me never seem to be looking to maximize profits.” – pg. 241
“I think that part of what defines gumption involves a willingness, even a hunger, for one’s mettle to be challenged. […] People with gumption will brittle when less is required of them.” – pg. 246
“If you don’t love your work enough to have a good time doing it, then maybe you’re showing up at the wrong job.” – pg. 247
“Like it or not, if you end a war by being the biggest asshole (by far), you are not really a victor. You’re the biggest asshole who had the last word.” – pg. 251
“A lot of my life is being administrated by ladies! – I don’t think about feminism, or even that they’re women. In all these contexts, they are just people. People who are good at their jobs, doing good work.” – pg. 272
“Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you – and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing else does.” – George Saunders, pg. 314
“Words, though, much like a devastating virus, can be so powerful in the way they afflict a population.” – pg. 326
“Humanity scientifically craves perfection, but the natural world of course is imperfect; it is not symmetrical.” – pg. 334
“Being alone is rarely any good, which is why we look for work to do that can be best achieved by many hands.” – pg. 363
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