quote me on this
“perfect is the enemy of good”
“you can do anything for another 10 seconds”
“if you want to go fast, go alone. if you want to go far, go together”
“if i asked people what they wanted, they would’ve said a faster horse”
“don’t save the good wine for the good days”
“99% of the time we say “can’t,” we mean “won’t””
“it’s not good enough to be right. you also have to be effective”
“what they did is better than art... because you live your life in it”
“90% of life is showing up. The rest happens when you get there”
“we trade trauma for wisdom”
“you have two lives, and your second life begins when you realize you have only one life”
“life is always whispering at you. if you don’t listen, at some point it will hold you down and yell”
“writing is hard, will always be hard, and maybe that’s good”
“repetition is reputation”
“art is anything you can get away with”
“you can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can only skin it once”
“the best view of heaven is from hell”
“paint the back of the fence, too”
“whoever discovered water wasn’t a fish”
“tradition for the sake of tradition is like growth for the sake of growth: the ideology of a cancer cell”
“caviar isn’t true luxury, it’s airplane food. you can buy it in every airport”
“great leaders make leaders”
“sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect”
“a flower is simply a weed with an advertising budget”
“if you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need”
“you never step in the same river twice”