Firestarters Quotes

“The road to your highest achievements leads through environments that support you.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“People’s confidence in their abilities influences how they approach life. Their dreams are likely anchored to what they feel they can achieve.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Innovators are owners of the situation. They own it because they create it—quite literally. They embrace the world as it should match the vision in their heads. And when something is missing from that vision, they fill the gap.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Firestarters are flexible. They recognize situational needs and are able to flow into the accessible role identity most relevant to overcome emergent challenges.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Collaborators don’t steal others’ ideas, take advantage of people, or sit back while others accomplish their tasks for them. Collaborators take action to ensure that everyone with whom they work can enjoy the maximum potential outcome.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Why doesn’t every fire once kindled, survive and thrive? Why doesn’t every person accomplish her dreams? The simple answer is that the Firestarter’s life is a constant fight against extinction.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Clarity of mission is important for acceleration. If you have a mission, but others don’t understand or your actions contradict it, then it will be less contagious.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“What others view as setbacks, Firestarters see as opportunities to learn and grow more.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“If you want to make a difference, you must live like no one else and strive to achieve goals that others view as impossible to reach.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“If you feel you don’t know the right people, turn to the next person you see on the street and introduce yourself—that connection could be the key to your future.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Freedom in any moment is a product of two things: the autonomy you feel and the support for autonomy that the moment allows.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Interest isn’t just something you feel. It’s something you live.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Success is not only dependent on understanding your own skill-set. It’s also important to recognize the talents of others and know how to profit from them.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Firestarters are able to make associations between similar situations and use lessons learned from one sphere of their lives to inform actions and thoughts in seemingly unrelated situations. They look for patterns of success, and then they pounce on situations that have proven to be generators of that success.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“When you travel mentally from a low point to a high point, the ensuing inspiration eclipses the negativity of the initial downfall.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Firestarters aren’t born lucky. They manufacture it.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Belief that you can act is a powerful motivator. Belief that change can happen in a flash is an even stronger motivator.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Introspection is a form of self-management. You reflect. You decide. You change. You allow yourself to grow.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match. —Mia Hamm, member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“A Fuel without an Igniter is wasted potential.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. —Harriet Tubman”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“If you are doing what you love, you will always love what you are doing.”
― Kathy Palokoff, Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“My mother taught me two very important lessons—the power of believing in a dream and the necessity of an unwavering work ethic in order to make that dream happen. There were a lot of starts and stops in my path, and I always had my mother as a beacon to remind me that it's possible.”
― Kathy Palokoff, Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Fear is crippling. Fear is confusing and distracting. It can be so powerful in a person's life and cloud your real judgment and what it is that you're destined to do in your life.”
― Kathy Palokoff, Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“When people didn't believe in me, rather than that letting it get me down, I let that fuel my fire.”
― Kathy Palokoff, Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Passion is what lifts a car. When a mother lifts a car because a child is underneath, it is out of passion. That's where the magic and miracles happen.”
― Kathy Palokoff, Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“I am a mapmaker. I draw my own path. I don't want a prescribed set of next steps.”
― Kathy Palokoff, Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Success is not the absence of failure, but the courage to persist in spite of it.”
― Paul Eder, Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life