The field seems to require a painfully uncommon synthesis of imagination and realism.
The field seems to require a painfully uncommon synthesis of imagination and realism.

Similar Alain de Botton quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
- Without having a goal it is difficult to score!
- If everything is a priority, nothing is.
- I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
- Just pick a goal and stick to it – no big complicated secret.
- Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.
- Every dream needs a bigger dream.
- Don’t nourish your fears more than you nourish your hopes.
- Success and failure come and go, but don’t let them define you. It’s who you are that matters.
- The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.
- It is remarkable how many things you can explode. I’m lucky I have all my fingers.
- The first step to win yourself is to wake up early.
- An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.
- If you are always successful, you aren’t being brave enough.
- Success is making those who believed in you look brilliant.
- A problem is opportunity shouting at you!
- In life, you get what you believe you deserve.
- The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called – which only a nerd would call – a ‘regret minimization framework’.
- Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
- Traction equals satisfaction