Francis of Assisi on necessary, possible and impossible

vutran | April 3, 2021, 7:11 a.m.

“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” 

— Francis of Assisi

Lillian Hellman on hope and habit

vutran | April 3, 2021, 7:10 a.m.

“Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.” 

— Lillian Hellman

James Clear on taking action to influence outcome

vutran | April 2, 2021, 4:43 p.m.

"Fear of failure is higher when you're not working on the problem.

If you are taking action, you are less worried about failure because you realize you can influence the outcome."

— James Clear

Cal Newport on cultivating passion

vutran | April 1, 2021, 8:03 p.m.

#1 Be very good at what you do

#2 Gain more control capital as you get better

#3 From the control capital, perform a lot of experiments to find a sweet spot close to #1 having all what you love, what people need, what you are good at

#4 Once you find a passion sweet spot, x10 your investment to become exceptionally good

— So Good They Can't Ignore You, Cal Newport

Stephen King on you will if you start

vutran | March 30, 2021, 6:17 p.m.

“You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.”

— Stephen King

Lillian Hellman starting as hopes, end up as habits

vutran | March 30, 2021, 5:39 a.m.

“Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.”

— Lillian Hellman

Neal Stephenson on organizing life to get long, consecutive, uninterrupted time chunks

vutran | March 28, 2021, 8:40 a.m.

“If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write novels. But as those chunks get separated and fragmented, my productivity as a novelist drops spectacularly. What replaces it? Instead of a novel that will be around for a long time, and that will, with luck, be read by many people, there is a bunch of e-mail messages that I have sent out to individual persons, and a few speeches given at various conferences.”

— Neal Stephenson