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"To anyone I’ve offended, I just want to say, I reinvented electric cars and I’m sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?"
“My biggest problem was that I had succeeded, at least in the pursuit of building my company. Where I had failed was with the rest of my life.”
"A place filled with so much wonder, replete with so many layers of complexity, that there is nothing else like it, anywhere."
“The key to meaningful work is in the decision to keep returning to the efforts you find important. Not in getting everything right every time.”
"For every Mozart who makes a big splash early, there are multiple Bachs who ascend slowly and bloom late."
"Movement is medicine, and the simplest acts of daily motion can have profound impacts on our health and longevity."
"I wanted to coach women to be the best in the world, but without subscribing to the dominant paradigm that athletes are disposable and that winning was worth just about any price."
"My biggest discovery was that you can literally re-create your life. You can redefine it. You don’t have to live in the past."
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"When you lift up women, you lift up humanity."
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"When you think you're done, you're only at 40% of what your body is capable of doing. That's just the limit we put on ourselves."
"For me, becoming isn't about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self."
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"The key, though, is being aware of how you’re feeling and how you need to be feeling. It all starts with awareness."
"My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs."
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"Productivity is not just about getting things done, it's about achieving our goals and living a meaningful life."
"I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over."
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do."
"Seek a calling. Even if you don’t know what that means, seek it. If you’re following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, the disappointments will be fuel, the highs will be like nothing you’ve ever felt."
"Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you end up depends entirely on who you choose to be from this moment forward."
"Extremists have shown what frightens them most: a girl with a book."
"There's a certain kind of magic that happens when you're up there in the mountains, a sense of freedom and possibility that you just don't find anywhere else."
"The road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard."
"Where are you? Here. What time is it? Now. What are you? This moment."
"Fanatic discipline keeps 10X enterprises on track, empirical creativity keeps them vibrant, productive paranoia keeps them alive, and Level 5 ambition provides inspired motivation."
"Ask nothing from your running, and you’ll get more than you ever imagined."
"Excellent companies believe in simplicity. They keep their strategies and operations as straightforward as possible."
"What's the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?"
"I am more than my physical limitations; I am defined by my relentless spirit."
"Taking small, consistent steps leads to massive, lasting change. Don't underestimate the power of incremental progress. Each step, no matter how small, brings you closer to your destination."
"The quantum field responds not to what we want; it responds to who we are being."
"All change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end."
"You must write every single day of your life. No matter how small, write something every day."
"It's not about the pursuit of happiness; it's about the happiness of pursuit."
Maye Musk raised her three children to be independent, hard-working, and to do good things.
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"Good for her! Not for me. We are different."
"When people display such rare physical gifts, there is a tendency to lift them into the realm of the superhuman, as if human magnificence is insufficient."