When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.
When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility
I’ve been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want – and the one that I’m best at.
I stopped feeling like I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I actually belonged anywhere I wanted to be.
No matter where you are in life, you'll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.
There's so many moving pieces, but to be as public as I've become and to be at the front and take the brunt of anything that happens is a huge responsibility, but also something that takes some time to step into and that has been really challenging.
Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there is no finish line; fortune favors action. Race balls-out toward the extraordinary life that you’ve always dreamed of, or still haven’t had time to dream up. And prepare to have a hell of a lot of fun along the way.
The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything. Several new science papers suggest that getting away is an essential habit of effective thinking. When we escape from the place we spend most of our time, the mind is suddenly made aware of all those errant ideas we'd previously suppressed. We start thinking about obscure possibilitiebsthat never would have occurred to us if we'd stayed home.
For the first time, I lived alone. . . in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.
I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.