Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory

Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person. -- Buddha

I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -- Winston Churchill

A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. -- Elie Wiesel

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins