“For better or worse, buying things (or photographing them, cataloging them, or writing reviews about them) is a way to engage with the world. When we're interested in something, we often express that by researching, shopping, buying, and collecting.” —Gretchen Rubin, author ”Happier at Home”

“Drummers typically take years to learn to move their limbs independently, and guitarists (as I was starting to realize) take many moons to learn to change chords smoothly.” —Gary Marcus, author “Guitar Zero”

...find a new usage in an old idea...open up possibilities for the future...new ways to think about old things.

I was at a vegetarian Japanese restaurant and saw a super old fridge there—a decor—and I immediately thought of the words in the quote above that I read some weeks ago. I’m not sure where I read it though.

So much of what happened in my life were the result of the decisions I made—some were good, some were bad—but all in all, I am reaping the rewards today. All the good and the bad shaped my life providing me with the experience that only those who'd gone through the things they'd gone through would understand.

“Create in your mind a scenario of experience, but then put it away. Stuff it into your pocket. Because no matter how you plot and plan, life's winds of adversity of your innocent mistakes will at times blow you off course. When you make interior or exterior journeys, there will be times you don't know where you're going. [...] Whatever you do, keep paddling.” —Marlee LeDai, author “Go Girl”

“Seeing is a learned process. Some of us go through life "seeing" very little of the power and glory around us. We do not properly filter the information that our eyes give through the mental processes of the brain. As a result we often behold things without seeing them at all. We receive physical impressions without grasping their meaning to us.” —Napolean Hill