If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.
I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.
The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is that you believe it.
We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.
The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.
I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.