The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.

If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.

Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.

What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.