You don’t have to be anything you don’t want to be. You don’t have to live up to anyone’s expectations. There’s no need to strive for a kind of perfection that’s not very interesting to you. You don’t have to believe in ideas that make you sad or tormented, and you don’t have to feel emotions that others try to manipulate you into feeling.
Category Archives: Strategy
Wise Words: Helen Keller: security
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. . . . Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Wise Words: Rose Tremain
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Wise Words: Alan Kay: invent
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Wise Words: Susan David
Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life.
Wise Words: Anton Chekhov: art
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
Wise Words: Irwin S. Cobb
If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers.
Wise Words: Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Wise Words: Aldous Huxley
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Wise Words: Colin Powell
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
