Well, when it comes to inspiration, I come from San Diego originally - it's an un-media-hyped, sleepy sort of town, big on beach culture you know?
I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had
More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively
To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.
Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around you for help - or even ask them to do the things you don't do well. In other words, there is almost no reason not to succeed if you take the attitude of 1) total flexibility - good answers can come from anyone or anywhere (and in fact, as I have mentioned, there are far more good answers 'out there' than there are in you) and 2) total accountability: regardless of where the good answers come from, it's your job to find them.
Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.
Seek to create change in your life not because something is 'wrong' ? but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of 'who you are'.
Some fans understand who I am and why I do things, and then there are some fans that have formed an opinion that I don't feel is who I am.
Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.