"As psychologist Howard Gruber wrote, “Ideas are not really lost, they are reactivated when useful.”" (David Epstein, Range)

"Don’t ask the mountain to move, just take a pebble each time you visit." (Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise)

"The trouble is that we have few, if any, maps to guide us on the journey or even to show us how to find the path. The modern world, in fact, can be viewed as a prodigious conspiracy against mastery." (George Leonard, Mastery)

"Bringing the right people into an organization, and keeping the wrong ones out, is as important as any activity that a leadership team must oversee. Though few leaders will dispute this, not many organizations are good at doing it, for a variety of reasons." (Patrick Lencioni)

"If too few opportunities for curiosity are available, if too many obstacles are placed in the way of risk and exploration, the motivation to engage in creative behavior is easily extinguished." (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity)

"All drama in leadership and life is caused by the need to be right. Letting go of that need is a radical shift all great leaders make." (Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership)

"As a rule of thumb, whenever communication is discreet—subtle, cryptic, or ambiguous—it’s a fair bet that the speaker is trying to get away with something by preventing the message from becoming common knowledge." (Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson, The Elephant in the Brain)

"The reason that I found CLA was that it forced me into situations that I would never get into in open rounds. Games with constraints literally constrain you as a grappler and force you to explore and experience grappling in new ways." (Lessons From Training in DC - Chris Wojcik)

"Repetition is, after all, the essence of tradition.” - Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

"Tellingly Tourish has found the most successful leaders are usually those with the ‘least compliant’ followers." (Will Storr, The Status Game)

"Information & Information-Movement Coupling   So often, in traditional practice, we focus on developing technique NOT on becoming skillful. That is, we spend way more time on the action while mostly ignoring perception." (Rob Gray, Learning to Be an “Ecological” Coach)

"This is a truth: when you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon yet undrawn." (Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings)

"The brick walls are there for a reason. They’re not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something." (Randy Pausch,The Last Lecture)

"Robert Houdin, often called the greatest stage magician of the 19th Century, once said, "A magician is only an actor only an actor pretending to be a magician."" (Robert Anton Wilson, Email to the Universe)

"First, you must see your attempt at attaining mastery as something extremely necessary and positive." (Robert Greene, Mastery)

"Emergent technology is, by its very nature, out of control, and leads to unpredictable outcomes." (William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor)

"“Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.”" (Tren Griffin, Charlie Munger)

"Your inner growth is completely dependent upon the realization that the only way to find peace and contentment is to stop thinking about yourself." (Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul)

""If you don’t know what you want,” the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don’t.”" (Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club)

"However, all of this may be changing. Wim Hoffery, athletic neuroscience, ice baths & Stoicism all begin to reappreciate the deep, ancient value of inner efforts and struggles Staying at your edge is essential for growth" (Layman Pascal, Gurdjieff for a Time Between Worlds)