When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is. - Tim Ferriss

Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most people to accept, because our culture [American] tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity.

The very word ‘success’ has become contaminated by our ideas of someone extraordinary, very rich, etc., and that’s really unhelpful…. Ultimately, to be properly successful is to be at peace as well.

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. — PAULA POUNDSTONE