“Stay open: to healing, to growth, to trusting. There is too much ahead to close yourself off.”

Busy is not your purpose.

Life gets easier when you love yourself harder.

You’ve got to rest if you want to keep going.

Be brave enough to bet on yourself.

Can you seek your own approval instead of theirs?

Put yesterday down to carry on with you.

Trust that something good is up ahead.

Making mistakes means you are perfect at being human.

Gratitude can help find the good. That is usually taken for granted.

When we cling to what we know, we miss how could we grow.

We focus on being extraordinary but forget we can always be extra kind.

You are not failing – you’re trying, you’re human, you’re pushing past what you know.

With every loss, you gain a new perspective.

Your body doesn’t need to change – the way you think about it does.

What if you used the time wondering if you can make a difference to just began?

Stop trying to fit in places that make you leave a piece of you out.

You’re so ahead of yourself That you forfeit what you need Though you can see when you’re wrong

No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.

For example, Jewish directors coming from Germany or Austria and enriching Hollywood. In 15, 20 years, Hollywood became imperialistic. Cinema goes ahead when it is marriaged by other culture. Otherwise, it turns on itself.

But I didn’t think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that’s the way it turned out. So I guess there are lots of paradoxes which I’ll leave for other people to unscramble.

It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

I think that Hollywood should also be influenced by directors from Hong Kong. You see how Quentin Tarantino is really the example of how you can develop, and how you can go ahead if you accept the existence of different cinematic cultures.

I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform.