[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read

Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.

If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news