Quotes About Perseverance

If you go out there and start making noise and making sales, people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all.

The War of Art,

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake." –Frank Wilczek

Nothing you face today will be harder than what you just did.

In a real sense, to grow in life, I must be a seeker of stress.

Failure will happen, and failure is an opportunity to build resilience, to practice forgiveness of self and of others, and to gain wisdom.

This book aims to systematically overcome all of the above failure points, step-by-step.

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. This book has a magical, activating quality

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake." –Frank Wilczek American theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner

So, my advice to my 30-year-old self is, don't be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have, and by the number of uncomfortable actions we are willing to take.

It's not what you know, it's what you do consistently.

In reality, most people aren't "bad" at languages. They're bad, like me, at memorizing boring, zero-gratification tables that make DMV forms look sexy.

What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the "real world"? What advice should they ignore? Embrace the suck for a while. Chances are your first job is going to stink and your living conditions won't be much better. Enjoy the scrappy years, 'cuz they'll make you self-sufficient way faster. Ignore anyone who tells you to go for security over experience.

Adversity doesn't create character; it reveals it.

There are no statues erected to critics.

Life is a full-contact sport, especially on the Internet. If you're going to step into the arena, bloody noses and a lot of scrapes are par for the course.

There is a way to get the rewards for a life of hard work without waiting until the end.

Make this trade a habit. Let the small bad things happen and make the big good things happen.

Rissa Kerguelen by F. M. Busby.

libro infantil que se lee en diez minutos: Sopa de Piedras, de Marcia Brown.

You will think it failed for Reason 1, but it failed for Reasons 1 through 5. And so the next business you start will fail for Reason 2, and then for 3 and so on.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." —James Cameron "If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." —Colonel David Hackworth