"If it isn't a clear yes, then it's a clear no."

--

Source : "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 17, 2014.

Greg McKeown

“Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at something enormous and black in its nethermost depths. Maybe it was the bottom--so deep that not even light could touch it. And yet, down in those impossible depths, she thought she could see tiny lights sparkling. She stared uncertainly at the tiny glimmerings. They seemed almost like scattered grains of sand lit from within; in some places they clustered like colonies, faint and twinkling. Like stars...”
“Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.”
“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.”
“The reverence that the object maker has for the materials, for the shape, and for the miracle of his skill transcends to God, the Master Craftsman, the Creator of all things, who uses us, our hands, as His tools to make these beautiful things.”
“One of the reasons I don't do social media is that I like the feeling that if somebody asks me for a picture on the street, I don't have to say yes.”
“People can put their best poems straight onto the web.”
“In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.”
“I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.”

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