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“There is no skill in the world, I have since discovered, at which you get better the less sleep you have.”
― Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
― Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
“This is exactly the trap you don’t want to fall into when it comes to deadlines: you don’t want to cast them as the villain. What you want to do is embrace them, because at a certain point more time does not equal better output.”
― Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
― Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
“Whether I'm on a deadline, or I'm distracted by other things going on in my life, or I just need to get through this thing in order to move on to something I'm more passionate about, I will unsheathe the pencil, move a delicious new blank piece of paper into the battlefield, and set myself to drawing in the fight to bring my idea to life.”
― Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
― Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
“Instead, I began to live minute by minute. Hour by hour. I focused on the present. I harnessed my fear of quitting, of the regret I would feel if I didn't give it my all. As my body got stronger, my mind grew tougher, more resolute and resilient.”
― Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly
― Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly
“nothing we make ever turns out exactly as we imagined; that this is a feature not a bug; and that this is why we do any of it. The trip down any path of creation is not A to B. That would be so boring. Or even A to Z. That’s too predictable. It’s A to way beyond zebra. That’s where the interesting stuff happens. The stuff that confounds our expectations. The stuff that changes us.”
― Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
― Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
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