Angst. That perpetual ruiner of promising young talent. - Ryan Holiday

Too much study and not enough doing creates a paucity of knowledge, a shelter of naïveté, no matter how smart you are.

Most successful people are people you’ve never heard of. They want it that way. It keeps them sober. It helps them do their jobs.

We have to find the people who can teach us and open ourselves to learning from them. Whatever stage of life we’re in, there is someone who knows more than us, who has been through more than us, who can open doors for us.