Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night. '
Success means doing things you don't want to do.
Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day.
Discipline is a choice. It's simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.
You multiply your time by spending time on things today that will give you more time tomorrow.
Easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences meanwhile difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences.
Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don't have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they're okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action.
We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "911"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.
I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.
To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.