To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard.
Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.
Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.
A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his road, to tame all of nature into compliance. The other is to make sandals. Making sandals is the internal solution. . . it does not base success on a submissive world or overpowering force, but on intelligent preparation and cultivated resilience.
Growth only really comes at the point of resistance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurts…pushing our limits is a muscle that can be cultivated like any other–incrementally
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.
The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those thousand words and cursorily edit that. Then I write the next thousand. I do that all the way to the end of the book and then I reread the book quite a few times, editing as go through.
As the run-by-capital society of producers turned since into the run-by-capital society of consumers, I would say that the main, indeed "meta", function of the governments has become now to assure that it is the meetings between commodities and the consumers, and credit issuers and the borrowers, that regularly take place.