I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.

Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.

Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.

Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections

We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.

In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.

Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice.

Adventure lies not in the places we seek, but in the moments we create in the places we treasure.

I'm Kyran. I'm usually the one who keeps him in line, " he said as he motioned to Talin. That made Neve's smile widen. "You need to keep a better eye on him." "I know, " Kyran replied wryly.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

Tell your girlfriend or wife you love them everyday. Like I do!

I always feel like everything I shoot is a student project and nobody else knows about it. I forget, in the moment, that other people will see it.

Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species.