“Being a successful entrepreneur means embracing contradiction. You must be simultaneously desperate and confident, scared and excited, a risk taker and not a gambler. Ultimately you need to be a clear thinker who is also a little bit crazy.”
Stuart Skorman - from his book Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur..
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“It’s hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.” Columnist Molly Ivins (1944-2007)
That is a quote from a Psychology Today article: A Field Guide to the Cynic, By Elizabeth Svoboda.
She quotes from Rick Bayan’s site The Cynic’s Sanctuary: “The world belongs to [...]

Jane Fonda: “Acting was the last thing in the world I wanted to do, I was so shy.
“But I got fired as a secretary and had to earn some money.”
She admits, “I didn’t get over my shyness until I was about sixty.”
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Michael Angier, founder and CIO (Chief Innovation Officer) of SuccessNet, notes the Law of Attraction (LOA) discussed in The Secret dvd “is aligning our thoughts, beliefs, feelings and actions to attract what we want. It’s not some hocus pocus that allows us to have everything we want without any effort on our part… It does [...]

“I do believe that the myth of ‘Celebrity’ is not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a powerful and fundamental part of a larger movement revolving around greed, apathy and hierarchy that is currently dragging us down, down, down, lower and scarier, and perhaps weaker than we’ve ever, ever been. Smile!”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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With the reality of more women gaining corporate and political positions with high levels of power - sometimes traditionally reserved for men - what do women think about power?
Brooke Shields: “I relate to not apologizing anymore for my power. Women are taught to undermine it, because it’s so threatening. But I don’t have to be [...]

Sara Davidson, author of LEAP! What Will We do with the Rest of our Lives?, writes about a “rough passage to the next part of life. In the Narrows, you feel you’re being stripped of your identity and your worth.
“I sank into the narrows in my fifties. After 24 years of writing for TV, I [...]

Keeping ourselves emotionally safe makes sense, of course, but safety and contentment may come at the expense of personal growth.
Producer Brian Grazer recalls deciding to learn how to surf at age 45: “They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all [...]