“I care about what you can do. I care about what you’ve done lately. Because this is a cross-country run, it’s not a 100 yard dash; one quick race is not a business career.”— Ross Perot, logomaker.com
“Part of the reason I do what I do is because I'm the only one who can do it.”— Donald Glover, esquire.com
“If you go in the ocean, you have to respect the ocean. You know that you can drown.”— Donald Glover, esquire.com
“We had someone whose full-time job was saying, "How do we make this into a business?”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.com
“Nick Denton initially hired me to write for a site he was about to launch called Flesh Bot, which was intended to be a site about adult things. I did not want to do that. [Laughs] And fortunately, Elizabeth Spiers retired before that site launched so he instead was like, "Oh, you're here. Just take…”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.com
“I always wanted to be a writer when I was younger, but I didn't think it was ever possible, and so I didn't take it seriously or actually even really think about it. This happens, I think, in a lot of fields, including fashion and media and TV, things that seem exciting and far away when you're youn…”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.com
“This is boring, but the greatest thing for me — and I see this with young writers sometimes, that they don't have — is I had to write constantly. It was very good on a sentence-by-sentence level and at establishing voice. Most of voice is just a series of crutches applied regularly, and when you're…”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.com
“I was an art dealer for a number of years, for a friend, and after that I was blogging for fun on the side. I was co-writing a blog with a friend who lived on the West Coast and learning how to write by writing in public — which, actually, I sort of take for granted now. That was a new thing, then.…”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.com
“Success is nothing more than a few disciplines, practiced every single day.”— Mel Robbins, twitter.com
“You have all the potential in the world, but where you plant yourself makes a HUGE difference.”— Mel Robbins, twitter.com
“Don’t tell my why you can’t do it. Tell me how you’re going to make it happen despite all the obstacles.”— Mel Robbins, twitter.com
“Your attention is PRECIOUS. Choose wisely. It is okay to walk away from things that no longer serve you. Actually, it’s a necessity.”— Mel Robbins, twitter.com
“Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgement, and shame. It's a shield.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“His question is not: How many games do you want to win? It’s how good do you want to be?”— Ryan Holiday, thoughtcatalog.com
“Everybody says, ‘He just won 31-3. What’s he complaining about?’ But it goes back to the inner scoreboard versus the outer scoreboard. Which one is more important? If you’re going to accomplish your goals, it’s always the inner scoreboard.”— Nick Saban, espn.com
“If it is not serving you, feeding you, nourishing you, fulfilling you, remove it. Now.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com