18 Quotes by Evan Thomsen

Find the beauty and the stories that inspire you and those around you. They will add tremendous value to your work and everyone else’s.

If you stop learning the moment you fit a role, you are gambling with your future, and every day the odds get increasingly worse.

Comfort is the world’s greatest producer of anxiety. Because it’s a lie.

Personal responsibility is a more valuable position than any political grievance.

Your work isn’t simply your job description, title, or industry. It’s when you wake up, what you wear, and your first 30 minutes in the office. It’s what your office is or is not, the five people you are physically closest to, and whether you can get up and walk or have to sit all day. It’s whether you fear for your job due to changing laws or innovation each day. It’s how it fits with your family and all the people and events that matter most. It’s the person you are when you come home.

Who would want to work with someone who characterizes the world as some zero sum, chronically unfair game, with injustice at every turn? How can this mindset possibly serve you, your friends, your family, or your colleagues? Is it good for your financial, professional, or mental health? Is it something to teach children? Do you want your neighbors, the world even, to engage in this manner every time something doesn’t turn out their way?

Fortune favors the bold, brave, and strong. If perfect and complete knowledge of a thing is your precondition for action, then the market will have already been filled and you’ll be behind the competition.

Nothing beautiful or interesting was born with the hope that it would never change. Change is inevitable. The choice you have is whether you want to grow or decay.

If you’re looking for someone or something to blame, you’ll never run out of options, as there are infinite errors, inefficiencies, biases, and accidents to account for. It comes down to what you choose to do, rather than what you can prove, and if you choose bitterness, you don’t choose to grow, adapt, learn, or improve.