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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

I spend a lot of time reading.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I don’t generally read a lot of fiction.