“One day, the same friend who never supported your business will repost it saying, ‘I knew you’d make it big.’ Keep grinding. Focus on your growth. They don’t believe yet, but soon, they will.”
“Hustle in silence and let your thunder shake the world.”
Source: The Art of an Enlightened Woman: A Manifesto
“Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only one that can ever get you home.”
Source: Just Listen
“Stories address us not just as intelligences but as people, honouring sentience and sensibility.”
Source: Business Storytelling from Hype to Hack: How Do Stories Work? Unlock the Software of the Mind
“All I wanted - all I’d ever wanted - was just to get away. To be somewhere small where I could crowd in and feel safe, all four walls pressed around me, no one staring or pointing or yelling.”
Source: Just Listen
“The dark was still a mystery, something hidden, something to be scared of, but I'd come to fear the light, too. It was where everything was revealed, or seemed to be.”
Source: Just Listen
“Eyes closed, I saw only the blackness, reminding me of this one thing, the most deep of my secrets; eyes open, there was only the world that didn't know it, bright, inescapable, and somehow, still there.”
Source: Just Listen
“You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.”
“[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular about the meaning of our liveries on state occassions, if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning or necessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be but a great parade of them. And as individuals get into trouble by making too great a show of liveries, or as slaves when they are too numerous rise against their masters, so I think I could mention a nation that has got into many great difficulties, and will get into many greater, from maintaining too large a retinue of words.”
Source: David Copperfield
“Good stories are not confrontative—they are collaborative. A story is collaboration. My words become your pictures.”
Source: Business Storytelling from Hype to Hack: How Do Stories Work? Unlock the Software of the Mind