Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.

Everyone will think it's stupid!" "Everyone says it's impossible." Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.

Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.

Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.