Stories tagged ambition

"To live a creative life, we must lost our fear of being wrong."

"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of others."

"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And more important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. "

"Be sure you put your feel in the right place, then stand firm."

"A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don't know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to sometime, you're fearing something it's bringing up in you."

"I live by 'Go big or go home'... That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to sport, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it."

"Success at anything will always come down to this: Focus & effort. And we control both."