“Life is a story. It’s full of chapters. And the beauty of life is that not only do you get to choose how you interpret each chapter, but your interpretation writes the next chapter.” – pg. 7
“At every moment in life, there is a fork in the path you are on. And you can choose to go right or you can choose to go left. Every right you take leads you closer to your best possible destiny; every left leads you further away from it. […] One of my goals in life is to learn from my lefts so I can take more rights.” – pg. 19
“Your problems are designed specifically for you, with the specific purpose of helping you grow.” – pg. 45
“It’s never too late to start caring.” – pg. 77
“When you’re trying to make it, you’re not judged necessarily by your talent but by your potential. And that potential is all about your willingness to listen, learn, and improve.” – pg. 123
“There is so much that is greater than us, whatever you believe. So while we get to choose the roads we take, we don’t get to know where they lead. Acceptance, then, is knowing that when your plan fails, or your road dead ends, it means a bigger plan is at work. And I’d rather be a part of a big plan than a small one.” – pg. 128
“When it comes to family and friends, either they believe in you right away, before you’ve ever done anything, or they’re your toughest critics and the last ones to offer praise.” – pg. 134
“Your job as a person with talent is to make yourself interesting after the audience hears your name.” – Keith Robinson, pg. 143
“For the first time […], I wasn’t trying. I was just being.” – pg. 153
“It is through our most extreme experiences that the biggest growth happens – if we survive them.” – pg. 153
“I guess that was the difference between me and many of the people I met over the course of my career: I always wanted to be bigger; I always wanted to do more; I always wanted to find the next step and the step after that.” – pg. 154
“One of the key factors for success – beyond work, talent, timing, relationships, and all the other qualities I’ve mentioned – is the glue that holds all of these together: commitment.” – pg. 160
“You have people who understand what you’re doing right away, and you got people who won’t get it until everyone else does. That’s just the way it is.” – Keith Robinson, pg. 169
“Once you know the rules of the game, you can play it.” – pg. 177
“If you do it enough, the right person will see you.” – pg. 178
“If success happens in part by chance, then the more you expose yourself to it, the luckier you will be.” – pg. 181
“I was successful not because I was the most talented person they’d seen and not even because I was the most persistent person they’d seen […]. But there was one other thing that gave me the winning edge, and will always give you the winning edge: being likable.” – pg. 183
“I’ve learned how to have confidence in my abilities and faith in my will to succeed.” – pg. 211
“If you wait for certainty, you will spend your whole life standing still. […] This of course leaves open the question of what direction you should move in. The answer: Pay attention, dummy. Life is pulling you there automatically. You don’t have to know You don’t have to understand. You just have to trust.” – pg. 212
“Every experience is a potential life lesson. Even if you don’t appreciate it at the time, each struggle in the present is preparing you for something else in the future.” – pg. 221
“Though people say to live in the moment, each moment leads to other moments. So treat each moment like a seed, and care for it so that something beautiful can grow from it.” – pg. 226
“Struggling when you’re going somewhere is exciting. Struggling when you’re not getting anywhere is challenging. But struggling when you’re going backward is hell.” – pg. 249
“Life is not about the result – we all have the same outcome in the end. Life is about the effort you put into it.” – pg. 250
“If you experience loss, it doesn’t mean you lost. It means you’ve been blessed with an opportunity to take a moment, realize how special someone or something has been to you, and go through new doors that were closed to you before.” – pg. 253
“Shortcuts may get you there quicker, but all the experience you gain on the long road allows you to stay there once you arrive.” – pg. 291
“Do your best, always. Because you never know who’s watching.” – pg. 307
“What’s important in a relationship is the bricks that every one of your words and actions lay down, because together they add up to the home that you’re going to live in for quite some time.” – pg. 315
“You don’t cry about what you don’t care about.” – pg. 323
“Look at what people make important.” – pg. 328
“It’s a scary thing to take the risks and make the sacrifices necessary to keep growing, but it’s better than living a life in which you don’t fulfill your potential.” – pg. 330
“What’s harder than achieving success is achieving consistent success. But what’s even harder […] is achieving consistently bigger successes.“
“But just because you work smart doesn’t give you the right to play stupid.” – pg. 350
“Sometimes it takes experiencing consequences to your actions for you to learn they’re wrong.” – pg. 355
“Everybody wants success in something, whether it’s work, love, play, finances, family, or an inner struggle. But success doesn’t come instantly. Life has a process of rejecting you to test you and prepare you to win.” – pg. 363
“How you handle rejection is very similar to how you’ll handle success. […] If you’re too weak to handle failure and disappointment, then you’re too weak to handle success.” – pg. 363
“Growing up, the best thing I ever had was nothing.” – pg. 367
“Who works hard just so they can relax?” – pg. 371
“Success is not an excuse to stop; it’s a reason to move the goalposts farther out and accelerate.” – pg. 371
“Patience is understanding that your moment will come at the right time, and your job is to get ready for that moment. Because if it comes when you’re not prepared, then it vanishes just as quickly.” – pg. 373
“In this world, there is nothing but life lessons. Pay attention to them and the world will open itself up to you.” – pg. 374
“Finally, thanks to you for reading this entire book, even the acknowledgments. Seems like you don’t want this story to end. Fortunately, it’s just the beginning…” – pg. 378
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