Kevin Kelly Quotes

When you lead, your real job is to create more leaders, not more followers.

Your enjoyment of travel is inversely proportional to the size of your luggage. This is 100% true of backpacking. It is liberating to realize how little you really need.

It’s possible that a not-so-smart person who can communicate well can do much better than a super-smart person who can’t communicate well. That is good news because it is much easier to improve your communication skills than your intelligence.

To have a great trip, head toward an interest rather than to a place. Travel to passions rather than destinations.

Always be radically honest, but use your honesty as a gift not as a weapon. Your honesty should benefit others.

To tell a good story, you must reveal a surprise; otherwise it is just a report.

Rule of 3 in conversation: To get to the real reason, ask a person to go deeper than what they just said. Then again, and then once more. The third time’s answer is the one closest to the truth.

If you stop to listen to a musician or street performer for more than a minute, you owe them a dollar.

When you feel like quitting, just do five more: 5 more minutes, 5 more pages, 5 more steps. Then repeat. Sometimes you can break through and keep going, but even if you can’t, you ended five ahead. Tell yourself that you will quit tomorrow, but not today.

Pay attention to what you pay attention to.

The first step is usually to complete the last step. You can’t load into a full dish rack.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Try to define yourself by what you love and embrace, rather than what you hate and refuse.

When you try something new, don’t think of it as a matter of success / failure, but as success / learning to succeed.

Hatred is a curse that does not affect the hated. It only poisons the hater. Release a grudge as if it were a poison.