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Work ethic eliminates fear.

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

Motivation follows action.

Give up on yourself. Begin taking action now, while being neurotic or imperfect, or a procrastinator, or unhealthy, or lazy, or any other label by which you inaccurately describe yourself. Go ahead and be the best imperfect person you can be and get started on those things you want to accomplish before you die.

Individuals who procrastinate frequently confuse motivation and action. You foolishly wait until you feel in the mood to do something. Since you don’t feel like doing it, you automatically put it off. Your error is your belief that motivation comes first, and then leads to activation and success. But it is usually the other way around; action must come first, and the motivation comes later on.

Don’t wait until you feel like doing something

The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.

In any kind of negotiation, your ability to walk away is your strongest tool.

Life is not a problem to be solved, nor a question to be answered. Life is a mystery to be experienced.

You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.

I have discovered that there is one main reason why we procrastinate: it rewards us with temporary relief from stress.

The reality of getting it done is more satisfying than the dream of getting it perfect.

Perfectionism is a rejection of now.

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.