Quotes
“The advice I like to give anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work.
All the best ideas come out of the process
... See more“Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that's why life is hard.”
— Jeremy Goldberg
“So many advantages come from being willing to look like an idiot in the short term.
You stay silent in an important meeting, afraid to voice your critical thoughts and watch the project fail. You don't write the novel because people might not read it. You don't admit you were wrong and repeatedly make the same mistake. You don't go to the gym becau
... See more“You deserve to be loved and chosen — not almost loved, or almost chosen. ... Have the courage to let go of the people who leave your heart confused. Let go of the people who make you feel like you are compromising all that you desire, and all that you hope for, and all of the goodness and the beauty that you know exists in this world, for a skinny
... See more“I wasn’t scared of missing, looking bad, or being embarrassed. That’s because I always kept the end result, the long game, in my mind. I always focused on the fact that I had to try something to get it, and once I got it, I’d have another tool in my arsenal. If the price was a lot of work and a few missed shots, I was OK with that.
I never felt out
... See moreVery little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius • Meditations
“People are always looking for happiness at some future time and in some new thing, or some new set of circumstances, in possession of which they some day expect to find themselves. But the fact is, if happiness is not found now, where we are, and as we are, there is little chance of it ever being found. There is a great deal more happiness around
... See more“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”
— Dale Carnegie
“You don't need more intensity, you need more consistency.
Intensity impresses; consistency transforms.”