If You Try To Delight The Undelightable,

Being Charismatic Doesn't Make You A Leader. Being A Leader Makes You Charismatic.

Here's Conventional Wisdom: Success Makes You Happy. Happiness Permits You To Be Generous. In Fact, It Actually Works Like This: Generosity Makes You Happy. Happy People Are More Likely To Be Successful.

You Don't Make Art After You Become An Artist. You Become An Artist By Ceaselessly Making Art.

It's Pretty Easy To Decide To Roll With The Punches, To Look At The Enormity Of Natural Disaster And Choose To Hunker Down And Do Less. It's More Important Than Ever, I Think, To Persist And Make A Dent In The Universe Instead. We've All Been Offered Access To So Many Tools, So Many Valuable Connections, So Many Committed People. What An Opportunity.

A Brilliant Author Or Businesswoman Or Senator Or Software Engineer Is Brilliant Only In Tiny Bursts. The Rest Of The Time, They’re Doing Work That Most Any Trained Person Could Do.