These 29 quotes of mine, including the title, are the ones for which I chose not to write an accompanying essay for a symbolic reason I will keep to myself, but which I still wanted to share:

1. Advise yourself before you advise others
2. Be good at sticking to plans, be great at sticking to goals
3. Be your own best critic, not your own worst critic
4. Criticism is free advice with whatever value you give them
5. Fame is becoming increasingly easier to get
6. Genetics only begets potential, not Destiny
7. I pray to ask questions, I run to get answers
8. If you had double standards, hold yourself to the higher one
9. It is hard to sleep when you dream with eyes wide open
10. It is better to be factually correct than politically correct
11. More even distribution is the only true economic problem
12. Most human binaries are continuums
13. Never have nothing you don’t like about yourself
14. Never underestimate the power of administration
15. Only those who matter to you can disappoint you
16. Opposites attract applies more to science than to love
17. Reality is my drug of choice
18. Rejections are wonderful sources of motivation
19. Save your world before you save the world
20. Simplicity is the highest form of complexity
21. Some people’s expectations are not worth living up to
22. Some words are worth a thousand pictures
23. The world needs more therapists, not leaders
24. There should be a quote for everything
25. There is no stare more intense than that of one’s mortality
26. Tolerance and impatience are both gifts of relationships
27. Universal basic income promotes equality, not fairness
28. What are you giving your biographer to write about?

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This post is one of 70 quotes I wrote, each with an accompanying essay, in my e-book and paperback Stars I Put in my Sky to Live By, on Amazon or Smashwords (choose your price including free!).