Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

I'm a big believer in dreaming. If you don't dream it, you can't become it.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

[Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be "grand." First steps are often small, and initial visions that focus energy effectively often address immediate problems. What matters is engagement in the service of a larger purpose rather than lofty aspirations that paralyze action. Indeed, it's a dangerous trap to believe that we can pursue onlhy "great visions."

Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone.