Shonda Rhimes

Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here. And don’t give a damn what anyone thinks.

I did not breeze in there thinking: ‘I’m going to nail this.’ My heart rate was not low when I was doing the Golden Globes. I wanted to do well. It’s very bizarre to be in a room where everybody in your audience is famous. But also: it’s an awards show!

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

I will work day after day like I did my whole life … I’m not going to change anything.

It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

Dream won’t work unless you do.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.

I don’t know exactly what’s next but I’m stepping forward with grit anchored in grace.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.

A habit is like a cable: we weave a thread of it everyday, and at last we cannot break it – so we must form good, positive, and productive habits.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Fear has two meaning; ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.