“Seek out people who are willing to level with you, and when you find them, hold them close.” — Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“Part of our job is to protect the new from people who don’t understand that, in order for greatness to emerge, there must be phases of not-so-greatness.” — Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

“There is one more general guiding principle of Design (and of Life): Don’t be a wimp. Don’t be afraid to create your Design (or your Life) with plenty of blank space—it’s rest for the eyes (and the Soul)” — Robin P. Williams, The Non-Designer’s Design Book

“And those who urge entrepreneurs to never give up? Charlatans. Sometimes you have to give up. Sometimes knowing when to give up, when to try something else, is genius. Giving up doesn’t mean stopping. Don’t ever stop. Luck plays a big role. Yes, I’d like to publicly acknowledge the power of luck. Athletes get lucky, poets get lucky, businesses get lucky. Hard work is critical, a good team is essential, brains and determination are invaluable, but luck may decide the outcome. Some people might not call it luck. They might call it Tao, or Logos, or Jñāna, or Dharma. Or Spirit. Or God. ” ― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“Anyone can work hard when they feel motivated. It’s the ability to keep going when work isn’t exciting that makes the difference. Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.” — James Clear, Atomic Habits

“All sunshine makes a desert. If all you eat is ice cream, you will get sick and tired of ice cream.. A lot of times, our greatest trials and tribulations produce the greatest happiness.” — Zig Ziglar

“In the face of so much evidence that life hurts and is fraught with adversity on all fronts, having a willingness to feel good and have life go well all the time is a genuinely radical act. ” — Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap

“Use what language you will. You can never say anything but what you are.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care. Selling is a transference of feelings. If your heart is right, your career will be right.” — Zig Ziglar

“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.”
“One of the greatest mistakes of successful people is the assumption, “I am successful. I behave this way. Therefore, I must be successful because I behave this way!” The challenge is to make them see that sometimes they are successful in spite of this behavior.” ― Marshall Goldsmith, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

“I want them [the CEOs] to judge every action by how it would appear on the front page of their local news paper, written by a smart but semi-unfriendly reporter, who really understood it, to be read by their families, their neighbors, their friends. And it has to pass that test” – Warren Buffett

“You either control your mind, or it controls you.”  — Napoleon Hill

“It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” — Viktor E. Frankl

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“Resentment is like drinking poison, and expecting the other person to die… think bless you.”— Julian Treasure, How To Be Heard

“Each entity in a conflict has 100 percent of the responsibility for resolving the conflict. In other words, person A is a whole and complete 100 percent, and person B is a whole and complete 100 percent. If two people are involved, there is 200 percent responsibility to be divided up. The fatal mistake is thinking that there is 100 percent of responsibility to be divided up; this approach requires each person to take some portion of the 100 percent. It’s a massive thinking error that causes massive problems, because it leads to endless jockeying for the victim position.” — Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap

“The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.” — Marcus Aurelius

“The best bridge between despair and hope, is a good night sleep.”

“There are two things to aim at in life. First to get what you want, and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”

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