To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.

Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working.

Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do.

Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.

Many pedestrians have been maimed or killed at the intersection of Resistance and Commerce.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.