Most of the people we sign on as development agents commit to goals they don't believe are possible.
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
Because we make ourselves deaf to feedback, because we overestimate our abilities, because we become consumed with ourselves, we end up subjecting ourselves not just to the inevitable stumbles or difficulties of life but catastrophic, painful failures.
He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.
As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.
I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.
If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
Liv Morgan is dumb if she thinks she can make waves in NXT by herself.
Don't start vast projects with half-vast resources.
Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.
I think it can be easy at a certain point to take it for granted that you can kind of perform whatever you want.
My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.
We always want to congratulate ourselves at having made more progress than we actually have.
I don't want to be that guy that thinks he is a high draft pick and that he has it all.
The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.
