When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money.

I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.

If you're just letting the time pass at your job, it's just dead time and you'll never get it back. If at that job you're learning and you're observing and you're seeing about people and connections, it's suddenly alive time.

Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.

I just know who I am and what's comfortable for me and I don't personally do things in life because others do it or because that's what society tells me I should do.