Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.

Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore.

A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

Complaining does not work as a strategy.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.