Innovation starts with questioning the way things have always been done.
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.
So what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas, and make sure that we own them; that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want, and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.