For what it's worth, it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

"If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail," he says, laughing. "You know what I mean? Fuck it."

I just watched "Kobe Doin' Work: A Spike Lee Joint", they put a mic on him for a entire game and then had him give commentary after the game on almost every single play. It might not sound that interesting but I was blown away by how much conscious strategy went into almost every play. Adapting to the defense, taking advantage of weaknesses, exploiting mismatches. He's constantly giving directions to the guys on his team.

I don't think it's typical of all players. You can tell by how he talks about it, he treats it like a craft. He studies it, gets genuinely excited about the smallest detail. I don't know how many times he said execution, "it's all about execution".

The thing that I've always loved about Kobe and the thing that I think sets him apart from everyone else in the league is, he doesn't just want to win, he wants bury you. Unequivocally, without mercy, just because he can, bury you.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

I'm not a huge Will Smith fan (Independence Day and Bad Boys were pretty rad though!) but I never knew he had such a awesome attitude about life! I love how he's so fired up about doing good and being unrealistc!

He would have made a kick-ass entrepreneur.

At first it didn't really make sense to me. I don't want to make mistakes tomorrow. The idea that one mistake is better than another is just weird, they both suck. I thought about it for a little while and here is my interpretation.

If you aren't making mistakes you're not pushing yourself which probably means you aren't learning. Now that doesn't give you an excuse to not think through decisions, that's just well.. stupid. Those are bad mistakes. Better mistakes is understanding that when you're trying to do something truly original, something that will fundamentally change the way people do things, you're going to make mistakes. Lots of them. Whatever notion of "a lot" you have in your head right now isn't enough.

You can look through every piece of information, think through every scenario, ask the smartest people on the planet and you're still going to be wrong sometimes. The trick is to not get discouraged, don't let that fear of making another mistake scare you, learn everything you can from them.

That way you won't make the same mistakes tomorrow, you'll get to make better ones. 

I remember early on someone saying Twitter is fun but it isn't useful and Ev said 'So what? So is ice cream'," Stone said while warning to be wary of skeptics. "We liked it. So we kept working on it.

awesome.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.