Steve Johnson

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Private victories precede public victories. You can’t invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

I am a visceral person by nature. I act on instinct, quickly, without pondering possible disaster and without indulging in deep introspection.

I’ve never been terribly interested in why people give, because their motivation is rarely what it seems to be, and it’s almost never true altruism.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I– I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Sorry it had to end this way but uh, it is what it is …

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Stay confident even when something bad happens. It is just a bump in the road. It will pass.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

It takes a person who is wide-awake to make his dream come true.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.