Push yourself to keep improving or you'll stay as close to the bottom as you are to the top
I don't think I have reached a plateau. I have just reached the level where I am today. But I need to go above it.
While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking - to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
I do it for the love. Bunk bed flow, always one level above.
No matter how much you've done, or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. The writer's only responsibility is to his art.
I don't really feel like I done made it all the way. I feel like, 'OK, we did this. Then we grinded enough to get to this point. Now we gotta grind enough to get bigger and bigger,' you know?
I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.
Some can go further than others.
I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
It's very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward.
Other heights in other lives, God willing.
It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university.
