Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.
Gentlemen, start your egos.
You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.
You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.
I'm so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did.
When I was 18, I was halfway up the Eiffel Tower with my friend, Tom, when we decided to stick our heads through the railings. The gap between the railings was exactly the right size to be able to put your head through and nearly get stuck. Which is exactly what happened.
When you're eight years old nothing is your business.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
You have to deal with your emotions and not spike too much on the graph - not get too elated with the highs or too down with the lows.
To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.
Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.
Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.
What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.
What the ultrafast laser does is that because it doesnβt have to just cut from the surface, itβs only at the intense focal point that it does this damage where the electrons come off the atoms, you could actually put your laser and scan it over your cornea and it would cut underneath that.
I want to become one of the best players, so if you want to be one the best, you have to elevate all aspects of your game.
If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
