People who are more rational don't perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better. - Jonah Lehrer

Trusting one's emotions requires constant vigilance; intelligent intuition is the result of deliberate practice.

"It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry — if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how to keep on working until the work is done. Woody Allen famously declared that "eighty percent of success is showing up." NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) teaches kids how to show up again and again."

Poe’s insight was that the audience didn’t care about the murder. That was just the setup, the inciting incident. What they really cared about was the mystery.