Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.

You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.

Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.

By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.