When we examine any particular belief or particular line of reasoning, we need to compare it with some accepted standard to test whether or not it is sound. But herein lies a problem, for this accepted standard must itself be examined for its validity; and the standard used to examine that standard also examined, and so on, and so on.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

“Normal,” as Carl Jung said, “is the ideal aspiration of the unsuccessful.”

— Grayson Perry, The Descent of Man

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

…experts are more interested in what they did wrong—so they can fix it—than what they did right.

— Angela Duckworth, Grit

The people who set the schedule, not just the ones who failed to meet it, need to be held accountable.

— Tom DeMarco, Slack