I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a project, then of course you will associate risk with failure.

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth.   Not going all the way, and not starting.”   Siddhrtha Gautama

The challenge, it turns out, isn’t in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stand by. The challenge is getting into the habit of

This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.

The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

Fortunately, we are not in control.

Everything was so broken, but it would heal. Saxonia will heal. Hollownot will heal. Everything will heal.I was broken. I will heal.It is certainty that destroys the souls of men.

To change the world, a country, an organization, a community, a relationship, begin with the smallest seed of change: begin with yourself. That is what this book is all about.

When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

If we succeed in empowering girls, we'll succeed in everything else.

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

I use singing as a warm-up before big scenes I have to do on set. It's also great to make people less nervous.

There is power in forgiveness.

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.