Successful people don't get successful by leaps and bounds. They get there by putting one foot in front of the other 100,000 times.

Rarely is creativity a birthing of something completely new and original. More often, it's just improving (or reworking) what already exists.

The way to excel is to combine existing things nobody has ever seen before.

every single public school exists to answer to someone else. They are organizations which take the lives and potential of young human beings and squeeze the data out of them. Living, breathing students turn into dots on a graph passed to state governments.

You will never have the time to do your life's work unless you make it a priority. The universe will never allow you to create until you prove you are willing.

Starting is hard. Staying is easy.

I am constantly reminding myself that by showing up each day, by creating more work, I am going to beat 97% of the people who are sitting at home, talking about what they could do if they had the time.

I don't have lots of followers on Medium because I wrote one great post. I have lots of followers on Medium because I wrote a lot of terrible things nobody cared about and then kept writing anyway.

If you're working, you must be doing something important (probably with spreadsheets) because getting together a report for some random executive is definitely more important than fulfilling part of your life's passion.