Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.
Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision.
It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.
Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.
Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together.
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.
I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.
Negativity, in general, is one of the things that holds people back, and you have to see what's holding you back to get away from it.
People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.
It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.
The monsters are in your own head.
First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.
If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.
I don't think writers should have writer's block. I think they should write. Imagine you were a bus driver and you said, 'I've got bus driver's block.' Get over it.
The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.
It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it.
