John

“It’s not just what you do in a job or your business that will identify you as a success or a failure. Not having “date nights” or saying, “I love you” daily will put your marriage at risk of failure. Spending sixty-five hours a week at your job will put your emotional well-being at risk of failure. Eating Twinkies and Big Macs and not exercising will put your health at risk of failure. Financing a car or paying more than the equivalent of one month’s income in cash will put your financial health at risk of failure.”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Playing it safe is like body surfing in two feet of water. You may not drown, but you’re also not in deep enough to catch any but the most meager of waves. The most dangerous strategy is to play it safe. In its place, Break-It Thinkers take risks and break rules and challenge convention, making change an ally.” —Robert Kriegel 2”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both. —James Michener”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal