febian’s most recent Quotables

There are so many people out there who will tell you - you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me".

Perfection is for losers.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Live like no one else so that one day you can live like no one else.

Oh, we enjoy our Stuff, and I’m the last person who would preach that Stuff is evil, but we never smile or laugh as we talk about the DVD player or the MacBook or the new floors.

He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

“Success in life is directly proportional to the number of awkward conversations you’re willing to have.”

This is my “depressed stance”. When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve go to stand like this.

I think you have to decide whether achievement is the route to self-esteem or whether self-esteem is the route to achievement. I think you guys think self-esteem is the route to achievement, and I think you're wrong.

If you want to succeed you got to be OK to lose control.

Modernity offers a curious paradox of connectedness and loneliness. Our perpetually networked selves cling to constant communication in an effort to avoid the deep-seeded sense of loneliness we so dread. Somewhere along the way, we forget — or maybe never even learn — how to be alone, how to stay contented in our own company.

The people who successfully start independent businesses (franchises, I think are a different thing) do it because we have no real choice in the matter. The voice in our heads won't shut up until we discover if we're right, if we can do it, if we can make something happen. This is an art, our art, and to leave it bottled up is a crime.

It's one thing to hear it...
It's another to do something about it.
Is there anything at all for which this isn't true?
Knowing the facts, the opportunity or even the process is merely a first step.

Busy-ness might feel good (like checking your email on Christmas weekend) but business means producing things of actual value. Often, the two are completely unrelated.

What if you spent a day totally unbusy, and instead confronted the fear-filled tasks you've been putting off that will actually produce value once shipped?

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you are not going to stay where you are.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

I found it funny what details they focused on getting right. I think I owned every single T-shirt that they had me wearing. But the biggest thing that thematically they missed is the concept that you would have to want to do something... in order to be motivated to do something like this. It just like completely misses the actual motivation for what we're doing, which is, we think it's an awesome thing to do.