"I tossed off a mention of the pirates early on. And they became integral to the backstory. Sometimes now I imagine them in the woods. They scare me. All men. Dirty and wearing red."

“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”

Source : Abraham Lincoln, Jack Stevenson (2017). “Abraham Lincoln: 100 Influential Quotes of My Life”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

“No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.”

“But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.”

“Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined. In general the higher a position in an organization, the more EI mattered: for individuals in leadership positions, 85 percent of their competencies were in the EI domain.”

“Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.”

“In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.”

“Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.”

“I'm like a small farmer who interacts with people who consume what I make and tend my little patch of ground, and the Spotifys of the world, which are like McDonald's, are going to make people less aware of how the thing gets made and of its value.”

Source : "Station to Station: The Past, Present, and Future of Streaming Music". Interview with Eric Harvey, pitchfork.com. April 16, 2014.