Jobs had Wozniak.
Hewlett had Packard.
Page had Brin.
Every successful Visionary has an equally capable Integrator.
The Visionary is in love with the dream, the Integrator is in love with the mechanics.
Having a vision is very, very, different, from bringing the vision to life. If you’re really strong in one area, in my experience you won’t be in the other, the thinking is too different.
Thanks Richard, for bringing mine to life.
What are you? And do you have the other? Or can you do both effectively?
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.
In church the other day, the pastor gave a sermon that really stuck with me. He talked about two people.