stuff tagged with "courage"
Break dumb rules. Break arbitrary small rules (or don’t). Break rules that exist only to create convenience for one group of people. Break rules that are immoral even if they’re not illegal. Whenever you can, break rules that exist only to uphold a system. It’s important. Don’t break the rules that define who you are, unless that’s not who you want to be anymore.
Theorizing is not nearly as effective as trying.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Deal with the consequences.
Creativity provokes the jealousy of the gods. This is why authentic creativity takes so much courage: an active battle with the gods is occurring.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Every great movie we’ve done at Pixar, we get down to the end, and we’re three months from release, and we realize there’s a better ending and you have to have the courage to give up what’s very good to do what’s great.
Better necessarily implies different.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
