It’s human nature, once you have success you kind of exhale and think you have it figured out.
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
The only thing I’m addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
There is no coincidence that stability brings success, and success brings stability.
I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can’t – you can’t do that.
I haven’t expressed this too much in public, but I have a friendship to a degree with Bruce Springsteen.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
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