Experience is what you get when you didn‘t get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer

Activity and reflection should ideally complement and support each other. Action by itself is blind, reflection impotent. Before investing great amounts of energy in a goal, it pays to raise the fundamental questions:
Is this something I really want to do? Is this something I enjoy doing? Am I likely to enjoy it in the foreseeable future? Is the price that I - and others - will have to pay worth it?

We must constantly reevaluate what we do, lest habits and past wisdom blind us to new possibilities