Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.
I'm not satisfied with doing well or doing good.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.
I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?
I was always 'awake'...Some part of me clamoring for NEW insights and NEW ways to make the world a better place.
We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.
If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.
And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or not blamed; but when they cannot, and wish to do it anyway, here lies the error and the blame.
You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.
'Seconds' is very much about reaching out for the next thing after you've figured out the first thing.
Being complacent was never going to teach us anything.
Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.
Asking questions is the first way to begin change.
The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action-fast.
No one is ever satisfied where he is.
If I'm the smartest guy in the room, I'm in the wrong room.
it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.
All action is an attempt to exchange a less satisfactory state of affairs for a more satisfactory one.
The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.
