If you want to praise acceptably, be very precise. Inattentive praise is almost an insult.
-- Eva Brann, Open Secrets / Inward Prospects: Reflections on World and Soul, p. 423
I hope whatever you’re doing,
you’re stopping now and then
and
not doing it at all.
--- James Fadiman, quoted in Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind, p. 282