25 Quotes by Todd Henry

Our passion wanes, because it's difficult to stay excited about the work when we feel that practical limitations will ultimately prevent us from really doing something we believe to be truly great.

In essence, we are pushing off the difficult work into the future so we don't have to deal with our potential inadequacy.I think that many people would rather live with the delusion that they're invulnerable than test their limits and discover that they actually have some.

The rest of us need you to act, because if you don't, you're robbing yourself, your peers, your family, your organization, and the world of a contribution that only you can make.

If assumptions weren't challenged, innovation would cease.

The great problems we see in the world today will not be solved by people functioning at half capacity cranking out work they don't care about in order to buy more things that will eventually rust and rot.

No matter how successful or skilled you are, you will inevitably fail at many things in your work.

A lifetime of mediocrity is a high price to pay for safety.

The most valuable land in the world is the graveyard. In the graveyard are buried all of the unwritten novels, never-launched businesses, unreconciled relationships, and all of the other things that people thought, ‘I’ll get around to that tomorrow.’ One day, however, their tomorrows ran.

By acting, we make things concrete; action breeds motivation, not the other way around.