Focusing exclusively on what is in our power magnifies and enhances our power.

— Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

Power makes you lazy.

— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules

Companies chose to create software QA departments because programmers were not doing their jobs.

— Robert C. Martin, Clean Craftsmanship

…if successful and unsuccessful people share the same goals, then the goal cannot be what differentiates the winners from the losers.

— James Clear, Atomic Habits