Mason Currey

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“A solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one’s mental energies and helps stave off the tyranny of moods.”

― Mason Currey

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“The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.”

― Mason Currey

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“Inspiration is for amateurs,” Close says. “The rest of us just show up and get to work.”

― Mason Currey

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“the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.”

― Mason Currey,

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“Descartes believed that idleness was essential to good mental work, and he made sure not to overexert himself.”

― Mason Currey

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“It’s no easy business to be simple.”

― Mason Currey

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“It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.”

― Mason Currey

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“A mathematician,” he liked to say, “is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.”

― Mason Currey