If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.

believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again

No is the foundation that we can build our yes on.