More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.

I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

Don’t do it because it’s your job, do it because you can.

It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

You can't win by being more average than average.