Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.

Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?

It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.

Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?

The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.

You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less without losing large parts of it. You cannot manipulate the news but not expect it to be manipulated against you. You cannot have your news for free; you can only obscure the costs. If as a culture we can learn this lesson, and if we can learn to love the hard work, we will save ourselves much trouble and collateral damage. We must remember: There is no easy way.