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1994·Los Angeles, USA
You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines and use them routinely — all of them, not just a few.
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.
David Foster Wallace·2005It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
William Wordsworth·1798Nor less I deem that there are Powers / Which of themselves our minds impress; / That we can feed this mind of ours / In a wise passiveness.
Epictetus·135 ADMen are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.
