Margo > Margo's Quotes

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Confidence is a skill, not a gift from the gods.”
― The School of Life, On Confidence

“Why is it that when we think of professionalism, we immediately jump to the idea that we should suppress everything we feel?”
― Liz Fosslien, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work

“But real achievement at work requires going one step beyond emotional intelligence: you need to learn to be reasonably emotional. This means matching how you communicate your feelings to the specific situation. To do that, you need emotional fluency—the capacity to productively sense emotion, and to know how and when to translate what you feel into healthy action.”
― Liz Fosslien, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work

“But the nature of work is to experience setbacks and to show up when you’re needed, even if you don’t feel like it.”
― Liz Fosslien, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work

“If you feel unmotivated at your job, it’s time for some tough love: you’ve probably given up on learning.”
― Liz Fosslien, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work

“The opportunity to level up is largely driven by you, by what you choose to absorb, by who you choose to learn from.”
― Liz Fosslien, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work

“Research shows that if we view talent as fixed (“I’m not a numbers person” or “I’m not creative”), we become easily discouraged by mistakes and are less motivated to make an effort.”
― Liz Fosslien, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work

“But the best way to decide what to learn is to take a step back and figure out why you want to learn. What do you want to accomplish?”
― Liz Fosslien, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work

“Start a side project. Side projects are a great way to engage a different set of muscles than those you use at work and can be one of the most rewarding ways to learn a new skill.”
― Liz Fosslien, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work