It takes a special kind of humility to grasp that you know less, even as you know and grasp more and more. It's remembering Socrates' wisdom lay in the fact that he knew that he knew next to nothing.

For your work to have truth in it, it must come from truth. If you want to be more than a flash in the pan, you must be prepared to focus on the long term.

inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us.

We tend to think that ego equals confidence, which is what we need to be in charge. In fact, it can have the opposite effect.

It's not about kissing ass. It's not about making someone look good. It's about providing the support so that others can be good. The better wording for the advice is this: Find canvases for other...

We must understand that we are a small part of an interconnected universe. On top of all this, we have to build an organization and a system around what we do-one that is about the work and not about...

It doesn't make you a bad person to want to be remembered. To want to make it to the top. To provide for yourself and your family. After all, that's all part of the allure. There is a balance. Soccer...

You're becoming who you are going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

Humble in our aspirations Gracious in our success Resilient in our failures

That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin, Montaigne

Failure and adversity are relative and unique to each of us.

Take it. Eat it until you're sick. Endure it. Quietly brush it off and work harder. Play the game. Ignore the noise; for the love of God, do not let it distract you. Restraint is a difficult skill but...

Humility engenders learning because it beats back the arrogance that puts blinders on. It leaves you open for truths to reveal themselves. You don't stand in your own way. . . . Do you know how you...

It takes a special kind of humility to grasp that you know less, even as you know and grasp more and more.

Success is intoxicating, yet to sustain it requires sobriety. We can't keep learning if we think we already know everything.

Pride takes a minor accomplishment and makes it feel like a major one.

Remember, zealot is just a nice way to say crazy person.

Easier in the sense that you know now what it is you need to do and what is important to you. The other "choices" wash away, as they aren't really choices at all. They're distractions. It's about the...

We seem to think that silence is a sign of weakness. That being ignored is tantamount to death {and for the ego, this is true}. So we talk, talk, talk as though our life depends on it.

At the beginning of any path, we're excited and nervous. So we seek to comfort ourselves externally instead of inwardly. There's a weak side to each of us, that-like a trade union-isn't exactly...

Blank spaces, begging to be filled in with thoughts, with photos, with stories. With what we're going to do, with what things should or could be like, what we hope will happen. Technology, asking you,...

It means you're the least important person in the room-until you change that with results.

There's one fabulous way to work all that out of your system: attach yourself to people and organizations who are already successful and subsume your identity into theirs and move both forward...

It's a common attitude that transcends generations and societies. The angry, unappreciated genius is forced to do stuff she doesn't like, for people she doesn't respect, as she makes her way in the...

Hate defers blame. It makes someone else responsible.

Think of what you have been putting off. Issues you declined to deal with. Systemic problems that felt too overwhelming to address. Dead time is revived when we use it as an opportunity to do what...

Yes, it would feel much better in the moment to be angry, to be aggrieved, to be depressed or heartbroken. When injustice or the capriciousness of fate are inflicted on someone, the normal reaction is...

Almost without exception, this is what life does: it takes our plans and dashes them to pieces. Sometimes once, sometimes lots of times.

Who knows-maybe a downturn is exactly what's coming next. Worse, maybe you caused it. Just because you did something once, doesn't mean you'll be able to do it successfully forever. Reversals and...

You thought it would get easier when you arrived; instead, it's even harder-a different animal entirely. What you found is that you must manage yourself in order to maintain your success.