Sometimes You Just Need to Be A Collector

01 Mar 2026 #misc

For my February book experiment, I wanted to open each chapter with a powerful quote. Stealing from Mastery by Robert Greene.

But then I realized I didn’t have enough quotes. I needed at least ten. I didn’t want to Google or ChatGPT for quotes and get the same quotes every motivational post uses. It was too late to read or surf the web looking for quotes.

That’s when I wish I had been a quote collector.

I remember Austen Kleon, author of Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work, who has a notebook for quotes and then he transcribe them.

I wish I had joined the notebook cult.