Personal Development Quotes

"Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing So be careful what you get good at." "You want to be a writer? Start writing You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now." "I don’t dislike any of my exes If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin’ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today" "It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done." "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" "There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love." "The first step is you have to say that you can." "Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste, it’s something that truly exists in all of us." "The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your " "We are comfortable planting seeds and waiting for them to grow into trees." "If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you're going to double your inventiveness." "If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table." "Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight." "We all know that if you swing for the fences, you’re going to strike out a lot, but you’re also going to hit some home runs." "Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life." "People who are right a lot listen a lot, and they change their mind a lot. People who are right a lot change their mind without a lot of new data. They wake up and reanalyze things and change their mind. If you don’t change your mind frequently, you’re goi" "You have to pay a price for your distinctiveness, and it’s worth it. The fairy tale version of ‘be yourself’ is that all the pain stops as soon as you allow your distinctiveness to shine. That version is misleading. Being yourself is worth it, but don’t ex" "Everything you do and every decision you make should be from a place of good. You should always be striving to make the world a better place." "Act the way you want to be and soon you'll be the way you act."