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Life is dreamed in big leaps and revealed in small steps.

Don't become a jerk. Don't get lazy. Don't get entitled.

You have the perfect amount of time each day for the things that matter most. The key is spending time on those things.

People who can't be questioned often end up doing questionable things.

I like being a beginner. I like the moment where I look at everyone and say, "I have no idea how to do this, let's figure it out.

wild talent and a bad attitude eventually lose to mild talent and a good attitude.

We started seeing motion as a sign of success and transition as a sign of progress.

Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity."4

Awesome writes great books even if no one is going to read them.

Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.

Want a better job right this second? Choose your attitude and adjust your expectations.

The distance between comfortable and comatose is surprisingly short.

Conversations, much like Saturday Night Live skits, are often difficult to end.

You know who we should fire, that guy who keeps learning how to do his job even better," said no one ever.

Great lives are very rarely created in great comfort.

I know it sounds crazy, but people with jobs tend to have more creative freedom than people without.

They are four words I want you to keep in mind when critic's math gets loud. He wrote, We will miss you.

If you're going to risk and maybe fail, fail at something that matters. Fail gloriously so that even in failure, lives change.

An accountability partner you only contact when you are winning isn't an accountability partner, it's a cheerleader. It's

Regardless of what you want to do or who you are, fear will always see you as wholly unqualified for anything you ever dream or attempt.

Misery loves company, but company often multiplies your misery.

Chances are, no one is trying to kill you at your current job. If they are, please read a book on Krav Maga, not this one.

Not because of my words - those are cheap and untrustworthy. But because of my actions, which are expensive and trustworthy.

You've got today, and today is all you need to start.

Regardless of your age or station in life, it all comes down to one simple truth: you just have to start.

Scars you refuse to hide can become lighthouses that warn other people who are headed to the same rocks you crashed on.

Right now, 80 percent of employers Google you before they bring you in for an interview.

Because the truth is, the surprises life gives are always better than the things you think you see coming. Publishing

God is an early bird; satan is a night owl. Everyone knows that.

You're just going to be a Starter. The starting line is the only line you completely control.

(The truth is that real life-change and the joy of being who you are designed to be always results in selflessness, not selfishness.)

Learning from those before you is a dying art that can catapult you ahead in the land of Mastering.

What do you do when all the excuses you used to not chase your dream are gone? What do you do then?

The only reason cavemen painted on walls was they didn't have note cards.

Generosity is always cheaper than greed.

90 percent perfect and shared with the world always changes more lives than 100 percent perfect and stuck in your head.

I'm not a fan of "finding your purpose." I'm a fan of "living with purpose.

Sometimes God redeems your story by surrounding you with people who need to hear your past so it doesn't become their future.

Choose your attitude every day until eventually it chooses you right back.

the best way to crush the discussion, is with a decision.

don't build a park bench if you secretly love Frisbee.

in a 2013 Gallup survey, 70 percent of Americans said they hated their jobs or felt disengaged.

I don't want you to wake up at sixty-five and realize, 'I spend forty of my best years doing something that just funded my life.

Your dream might not be as extreme as Bono's, but like him you may meet yours before you're ready to run after it.

The problem is that "by now" is a phrase we say to ourselves when we're trying to believe the lie that it's too late to start pursuing our dream.

No one pursuing a life of average was ever made fun of by other average people. But if you decide to travel the road to awesome, you will be.

Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle.

Ask any honest sage if they were an expert at something the first time they tried it, and they'll giggle and probably give you a caramel.

Joy is an incredible alarm clock. It will wake you up and keep you up and pick you up and gently pull you through a thousand rejections along the way.

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, author Michael J. Gelb

A dream you don't have to fight for isn't a dream - it's a nap. One changes your afternoon. The other changes your world. Keep fighting.

It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part. - MARCEL PROUST

Hustle tries. Then it fails. Then it tries again, because of grit, which is simply being brave when you don't feel like being brave.

Intentions are ambitious liars.