Phil Dunphy: What was on my mind as I was walking that wire? I was thinking, if I can do this… then I have two ways to cross the yard.
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Try to be better than yourself.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevsky, all of us. Proof of that is that there are about three candidates for the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays. But what is important is Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, not who wrote them, but that somebody did. The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn’t have needed anyone since.
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
If you want to go east, don’t go west.
I don’t know who my grandfather was. I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself.
The more that you read,
The more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
The more places you’ll go.