Quotes 365

The basic fault line within American economic policy has pitted technocratic liberalism against ideological conservatism.

Who am I to judge?

People are happiest when they experience better-than-expected progress.

Why reform the admissions office when you can dismantle it?

The prestige of a diploma from a prestige university comes not from graduating but from getting in.

Rockism means idolizing the authentic old legend (or underground hero) while mocking the latest pop star.

Deep work is to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task, and shallow work describes activities that are more logistical in nature, that don’t require intense concentration.

Nearly everyone I know is addicted in some measure to the Internet.

There is no such thing as a digital strategy anymore. Just strategy in a digital world.

The mortality of Supreme Court Justices is an element of wild randomness in the American political system.

Schedule others as you would have them schedule you.

I have painted the Seine throughout my life, at every hour, at every season. I have never tired of it: for me the Seine is always new.

When workers are well-rested, they’re better employees.

It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one.