Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.
It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.
It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
I guess you wouldn't dare to dream that you would get to the end of five years.
My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.
To hit 100 miles per hour, that's something. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it, but it's something I can do and think about.
