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You cannot authentically live anyone's life but your own. That is the deal life offers us.

Pursue your passion, and everything else will fall into place. This is not being romantic. This is the highest order of pragmatism.

Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them. Smart people will challenge you to think harder and in entirely different ways.

Find allies rather than adorers. Adorers are people who fawn over you but never tell you when you screw up. Instead, seek out allies who are honest with you when you feel you are not living up to your potential.

There is another path to take. It's hard work. You'll be right sometimes, you'll be wrong sometimes. People will doubt you, you'll doubt yourself. But if you are doing something you want and have a passion for, at least you'll have that to guide you.

When you work for other people, they do know what's best for them and for the company. And you should listen to them and be respectful. But they don't know what's best for you. Only you know that.

I had to substitute money with creativity and that's what made all the difference. I had to make a movie in a way that broke the traditional mold and learn not to be a slave to tradition.

Learn humility and wisdom when you stumble, because it will help you when you succeed.

It is what you do during those valleys that will determine the heights of your peaks.

Your great education is what got you the interview, but it is who you truly are that will get you the job.

The first five minutes of the game does not decide the outcome. It never does.

You will quickly find that true success is measured in how you play the game of life.