"I'm nowhere near where I used to think I should be."

"Some will. Some won't. So what? What's next?"

"The times of your life often don't feel like it at the time."

"Don't forget the [fun] within the fundamentals."

"The smartest recognize when they're not the smartest and then recognize how to respond accordingly."

"Being comfortable within one's own skin is often a formidable task."

"Making excuses gets you nowhere; taking action gets you everywhere."

"The difference lies if only for a moment [in] the moment."

"Caring enough to care less."

"Sincerity is another form of marketing."

"There's a bigger market for believing."

"Belief is simply the [willing] suspension of disbelief."

"Perceive the ordinary to conceive the extraordinary."

"Peer pressure is to kids as consensus is to adults."

"Courtesy is [not] a sign of weakness."

"Realities often pale in comparison to fantasies."

"Too many options leave few choices."

"Hypocrisy becomes comedy when it's obvious and tragedy when it's not."
 

"You get behind by getting ahead of yourself by getting in your own way."

"A little less of what matters least allows for a lot more of what matters most."

"Simply [being] great precedes [doing] great things."

"It seems that those who fear [judgment] the most are often the most judgmental."

"The [same] person never changes."

"Giving it away is a way to give to come away with more than you gave."

"Some are very thorough at going [around] the very things that should be gone through."

"The object of the 'laundering' distinguishes its relative [cleanliness or dirtiness] distinction."

"Make things interesting by having interesting things to say in an interesting way."

"Setting into motion [mitigates] going through the motions."

"Everybody’s trying to be [somebody] while nobody’s trying to be themselves."

"Overt [value] is produced by giving people what they don't really know, but really want to know."

"Covert [value] is produced by giving people what they don't really know they really want to know."

"People will become more interested in you if they [believe] you are more interested in them."

"Part of being great is recognizing what you're [not] great at."

"Editing can most often make the mediocre magnificent."

"The right rationalizations are usually for the wrong reasons."

"We'll never get comfortable doing positive new things at last [until] we get uncomfortable with the negative old things first."

"The beautiful part about being lost is that it's rarely permanent."

"A mystery that needs solving is not really a mystery."

"Telling someone to show, don't tell, is showing the opposite."

"Creativity without clarity can be an exercise in futility."

"The beauty of hindsight is seeing what came before in a way that can positively influence what comes next."

"One of life's greatest challenges is living up to the legacy one wishes to leave."

"A new delivery method is a necessity when [the message is necessary] but not necessarily new."

"If something about you is making [you] uncomfortable then you need to make some things change."

"Apathetic is a pathetic posture."

"The [perceived] size of one's world is directly [proportional] to the amount of happiness they [possess]."

"What you’re [supposed] to think IS realizing that what you [really] think and what you’re "supposed" to think CAN be mutually exclusive."

"Not intending to offend is [not] the same as not offending."

"Where motivation is often short-term and a fast burn; true inspiration is long-term and a slow burn. Aspire to inspire!"

"Conservative execution pursuing perfection produces liberal procrastination and stagnation."

"If you're tiring of trying the tried and true, it's time to create something unique; something new."

"Make somebody [feel] something [good] and you'll make that certain somebody feel good about becoming a fan."

"Putting real emotion into the [motion] it takes to go through the motions really makes the latter impossible."

"Faith requires the credulous commitment to [and] real belief in the reality of the incredible for it to qualify as such."

"The greater contribution of individual creation may be [the] contribution to the greater collective of creation."

"Feelings often come into focus following the recognition that focus often determines feelings [and] that feelings often influence focus."

"Just as [going-to-do] doesn't always equal doing; a lack of [going] doesn't always equal a lack of [doing]."

"Living well with an openness to learning is the [midpoint] between simple survival and assumed arrival."

"What you're doing when you're [done] "doing" is what you're supposed to be doing in the first place."

"When creating is compelling, but maintaining is repelling - reconsideration of the creation may be required."

"It's the door is ajar [and it's] the jar is a door [and it's] all just our [perception] defining what the doors and the jars actually are."

"Enjoying the journey [is] the arriving we seek."

"To acknowledge the unknown is not necessarily to admit unknowing."

"Diversity is a matter of degree often producing a diversion from the heart of the matter."

"Avoiding the negativity of some is sometimes more powerful than pursuing the positivity of others."

"Drawing the curtains of consciousness is the art AND science of self-awareness."

"Reality is that which exists and is visible [only] behind the unveiled blindfolds of perception."

"Embarrassment is imminent when discretion is the exception."

"Talking in circles prohibits thinking outside of the box resulting in painting oneself in a corner."

"IF change + challenges = [choices]; AND WHEN choices + change = [challenges]; THEN challenges + choices = [change]."

"Remember to be [yourself] even when yourself forgets at times, and tells you to [be] somebody else sometimes."

"One true test of will is the temporary willingness to test that one's will power is truly temporary."

"While commanding attention demands attention; demanding attention never commands attention."

"Describing what it [isn’t] is sometimes more descriptive than describing what it [is] when what it is isn’t more descriptive than what it isn't."

"Common courtesy has become so uncommon that it has become commonplace to be unkind."

"Sometimes making the right move is about recognizing when it's the right time to move on."

"Faith and truth often have little in common other than the TH at the end - 'the hope' for something to believe in and to live for in the end."

"Writing temporarily affords the introverted the opportunity to be temporarily extroverted."

"Genuine disinterest and/or true disbelief in something certainly doesn’t make that certain something genuinely uninteresting and/or untrue."

"It seems that things are seemingly as crazy as they seem; at least that's what it seems like to me."

"Often, where there's smoke there's fire - unless there's only [blowing smoke] which often indicates the absence of any 'real' fire."

"Asking for it won't guarantee you'll get it, but [not] asking for it guarantees you won't."

"Where knowledge may be illustrated by "knowing" answers - wisdom is often demonstrated by [knowing] how & where to [find] them."

"The truth is that resting [in] truth comes from wresting [your] truth out of the restlessness produced from 'the' truth."

"It is what it is... unless what you [think] it is, isn't really what it [is] after all."

"Sometimes we don't feel like that which we like, and other times we dislike that which we feel like. Don't like it ≠ don't [feel] like it."

"The happenstance of [happiness] is what eventually happens while working through the periods of unhappiness that inevitably happen."

"Once, once upon a time, one wondered about being one-of-a-kind. So every once in awhile, this one, won people over one-by-one, all at once."

"Less is more when [more] contributes [less] becoming useless more or less."

"You'll never get back what you're giving away freely, if you're [always] giving it away for free."

"Make seeable your [unseen] - so others can [see] what others have [seen]."

"Attention to intentions that lead to action is action intended to be paid attention to."

"Many are [not] really who [they] think they are - they really are who [they] think [others] think they are."

"Being what you want to be, initiates the doing what you have to do, which produces the having what you want to have."

"Success isn’t getting what you want; success is doing what you’re supposed to be doing. The getting is an inevitable result of doing the right things."

"If you have to → you probably won’t. If you want to → you probably will. If your will is to → you definitely will want to have to."

"Make it better by being aware that making amends sometimes makes it worse."

"Knowing that you don't know makes doing matter more. but if you don't know that you don't know, you're done. no amount of doing will matter."

"Finding what you're searching for begins once the searching ends."

"Effective leaders understand that lasting change results only when new ideologies replace old ideas and eventually lead to new behaviors."

"Not getting what you thought you wanted often creates the insight and motivation required to finally go get what you didn't know you actually needed."

"When strong convictions do not confirm, but ultimately contradict “common sense,” do these convictions need to be strongly reconsidered."

"Reporting every move you make seemingly makes your moves less reportable."

"When we realize that we often have as far to go as we've come; we're finally on our way."

"Mind math: Simplicity = Clarity + Certainty = Productivity = Security = Certainty + Clarity = Simplicity... it all adds up."

"Human nature can sometimes get very ugly when influenced and corrupted by even uglier human's of nature."

"Greater benefit is derived from focusing on what it is and what it can be, rather than dwelling on what it isn't and what it shouldn't be."

"Taking a closer look and reflecting seems like a good idea when things aren't as seem."

"Believing in something certainly only makes it true for you; not necessarily for those whom you choose for it to certainly."

"Success is the willingness to change what you give up, to get what you think you want, when it's worth more than what you get."

"No matter what you do, there will always be that 10% or so who don't get you, or don't like you, no matter what you do, so do it no matter what."

"Sometimes, being on the "winning" team can be a losing proposition."

"There exists a responsibility to consciously learn as much as we claim to believe."

"Giving something up to help another often results in gaining far more than you ever gave."