Thought provoking

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.”

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

a person who is too fearful will end up performing defensively and thus fail to seize offensive advantages.

The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.

negative emotions are a call to action.

We don’t always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond.

We shouldn’t seek to find the ultimate “right” answer for ourselves, but rather, we should seek to chip away at the ways that we’re wrong today so that we can be a little less wrong tomorrow. When viewed from this perspective, personal growth can actually be quite scientific. Our values are our hypotheses: this behavior is good and important; that

the real potential of becoming An Artist Nobody Likes was far, far scarier than remaining An Artist Nobody’s Heard Of. At least he was comfortable with and used to being An Artist Nobody’s Heard Of.

Action isn’t just the effect of motivation; it’s also the cause of it.