“If you make great music, you can become a mold breaker or a trailblazer. It's a little scary to do that because you can't always see what's in front of you, but you're clearing out a path for people behind you to follow.” PeopleIfsLittlesBehindsPathFrontsScaryMoldBehind YouGreat MusicClearingTrailblazersClearing Out Author:Anthony Evans
“Entrepreneurs don't really make mistakes, though. We just make decisions that seem right at the time, but which sometimes turn out to have been the wrong path to take. For example, we allowed a buyer to place a huge opening order and later had to take some product back. We didn't have our sell-through programs in place, so in hindsight, it would have been wiser to sell in less product at the outset. The scary thing is you are always making decisions without knowing the future.” Has BeensSometimesSeemsOrderTurnsDecisionBusinessMistakeKnowingPathExampleProductsHugeProgramSellsEntrepreneurScaryOpeningMaking MistakesWiserHindsightMaking DecisionsBuyersScary ThingsWrong PathKnowing The Future Author:Tom Szaky
“I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very, very scary. It was suffocating to think that I was just going to do this thing for the rest of my life.” ThinkingJoyGuyPathBecomingComputerScaryComputer ScienceSuffocating Author:Kumail Nanjiani
“I think in general, it's just an interesting age to be at, after college. You spend so much of your life, being on this academic trajectory - and then when it's done - all of a sudden the whole world is maybe open to you. But you're the one that's really in charge of your path. And that can be a really scary thing, I think.” ThinkingWorldDoneWholeAgeInterestingPathCollegeScaryWhole WorldAcademicTrajectoryScary ThingsReally Scary Author:Chris Baio
“Sometimes, as a young artist, I was looking for validation to know I was good enough, and that's what the initial audition gave me. It made me feel like I was doing something right, even if it is a scary or unstable path.” IfsKnowsFeelsMadeSometimesEnoughYoungArtistPathScaryGood EnoughAuditionsInitialsUnstableValidationYoung Artists Author:Erin Willett