When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.
When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.
Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.
If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.
If there’s time for an emergency, why isn’t there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?
If you’re not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.
Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
We notice what we choose to notice.
Who gets to decide what you want?
Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.
The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.
If you have no wish, how can it possibly come true?
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
No one ever gets talker’s block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.
Every voice doesn’t matter – only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.
A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.
I’ve never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.
Average feels safe but it’s not. It’s invisible.
Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they’re not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.
If you’re not upsetting anyone, you’re not changing the status quo.