Try to learn as fast as you can from the wizards and then steal what you can appropriate from them and use it to modernize your existing business model (without disrupting it).
Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.
If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with
I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.
One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid. . . One wants. . . But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?
I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.
Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?
A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.
The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.