Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.
Never lower your price, add value.
Anyone who minimizes the importance of success to your future has given up on his or her own chances of accomplishment and is spending his or her life trying to convince others to do the same.
Just Remember: The people that say, "your dreams are impossible " have already quit on theirs.
Most people only work enough so that it feels like work, whereas successful people work at a pace that gets such satisfying results that work is a reward. Truly successful people don’t even call it work; for them, it’s a passion. Why? Because they do enough to win!
Most opportunities are disguised as problems.
Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.
There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.
The rewriting is always crucial to what I do; whenever I do a scene, I always tell myself that this isn't final and that I can do it again, better. The pacing is probably from experience. I've always liked gradual disclosure. I keep thinking of my rubber-band theory. You have a rubber band that you keep pulling and pulling and pulling, and just at the moment of snapping you release it and start another chapter and start pulling again.
I can honestly say that I have never had a more bitter disappointment.
I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.