Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you’re the least important person in the room — until you change that with… - Ryan Holiday

The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.

To each,” Winston Churchill would say, “there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you’d be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled — have you no shame in that?” — EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 28