What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.