Quotes About Resilience

PARTING ADVICE? "What I would really like is for those of you who have been told that you're learning disabled, or you're not good at math, or that you're terrible at music, or something like that, to seek out unconventional ways of proving that wrong. Believe not only in yourselves, but that there are [ways, tools, methods] powerful enough to make things that look very difficult much easier than you ever imagined.

Most of your startups will fail, so the successes need to make up for losses.

If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

No idea is so big that you can't take the first step. If the first step seems too hard, make it simpler. And don't worry again if the idea is bad. This is all practice.

Why Exercise Is Important to Stan Aside from the self-image and performance aspects: "It also puts discipline in the day. I find that if the day is terrible, but I worked out, at the end of the day I'll go, 'Well, I had a good workout,' almost no matter what happens. When

Like everything, there's a pain period when you step out of your comfort zone. And just when it seems toughest, and you most want to give up (because it's too much time/work/energy, because you don't understand it, because you don't trust it), if you push through that moment, immediately afterward you break free and it becomes a habit that you feel you've been doing all your life (and know you should have been doing all your life).

Or Dick Fosbury, who went backwards over the high jump bar for the first time in the Olympics, winning gold —" ERIC: "1968, you got it." TIM: "Ridiculed, then mimicked, and eventually made standard.

WHY EXERCISE IS IMPORTANT TO STAN Aside from the self-image and performance aspects: "It also puts discipline in the day. I find that if the day is terrible, but I worked out, at the end of the day I'll go, 'Well, I had a good workout,' almost no matter what happens.

1—It doesn't matter how many people don't get it. What matters is how many people do.

What's on the other side of fear?" His answer is always, "Nothing.

I look at every failure as a learning experience and try to spend time with my failures. I stew on them for a while until I pick out some nugget from them that I can take forward.

It's always the hard part that creates value." "You are more powerful than you think you are. Act accordingly.

I'm old-fashioned. Where I come from, people like to succeed. . . . When I was a founder, when I first started out, we didn't have the word 'pivot.' We didn't have a fancy word for it. We just called it a fuck-up.

Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from getting what you want." Brandon Stanton

Lo que hay que tener (Anagrama, 2010), de Tom Wolfe

It's not giving up to put your current path on indefinite pause.

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life.

There is nothing more powerful than failure to reveal to you what you are truly capable of.

Distress refers to harmful stimuli that make you weaker, less confident, and less able. Destructive criticism, abusive bosses, and smashing your face on a curb are examples of this. These are things we want to avoid.

Don't overestimate the world and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. And you are not alone.

No tiene ningún sentido que a las niñas se les diga que son más frágiles

Don't let someone knock you off course before you reach your destination. Trust the work. Always trust the work.

I think we need to teach kids two things: 1) how to lead, and 2) how to solve interesting problems. Because the fact is, there are plenty of countries on Earth where there are people who are willing to be obedient and work harder for less money than us.

The worst really wasn't that bad.