The problem with human beings is that they can't sit alone in a room for more than an hour.

If you are armed with knowledge, if you are aware that certain dynamics are at play then you have options. You can play defense, you can ignore certain person and take the consequences perhaps with a game plan in mind and it goes on, you've increased your options.

Nothing is given to you.

The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment.

You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.