“You're just listening to the wrong voice. You're tuned in to the one yelling at you over the loudspeaker that you're fucking stupid, and you're ignoring the quiet one, inside, telling you where the alpha is. Now, that's the voice that got you here.”Tagged: Inner Voice, Alpha, Stupid
“A normal person wouldn’t engage in the behavior. A sociopath wouldn’t give a shit. You’re somewhere in between.”Tagged: sociopaths
“If you’re successful enough, people think you can do anything, and then you start to believe it, too. It’s hard not to engage in a little magical thinking when everyone else is looking at you like you’re some combination of Warren Buffet and God above.”Tagged: Magical thinking, Arrogance, Thinking You're A God, Dangers of Success
“Rich guys head to the city when their marriages fall apart for the same reason birds fly south instead of freezing their asses off.”Tagged: Anthropomorphism, Broken Marriages
“Impose your will on him until he does what he needs to and repays the debt.”Tagged: willpower, Getting What Is Owed To You, Pushing Hard
“Get good at letting go, which is a different kind of freedom.”Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On, Freedom In Moving On
“Your son is the man you made him. Whatever greatness and whatever darkness is in him came from you.”Tagged: Father and Son, We Are Our Parents
“They would never admit this, but when they first met, when Chuck and I first started dating, they liked each other plenty. More than that, smartest guys in the room. They saw themselves in each other.”Tagged: Are Friends Mirrors or Enemies?
“You don't want to be in politics, you want to be beyond politics.”Tagged: Nietzschean Themes In Popular Culture, Politics Sucks, Going Beyond The Power to a Higher Power