Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
It is never too late to learn.
Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an adventure. Wanting to is the principal requirement. If you can do and want to, don't not. In short, while alive, live.
Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.
Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.
I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.