If you listen to critics for too long, you will become deaf to success.

The bigger the bricks critics throw at you the bigger the palace you are going to build.

Ignore your haters. Resist your fears. Embrace your dreams.

Thankfully existing only in SMALL pockets within our discipline, is “intellectual” snobbery. It’s a hushed but ugly truth that people are made to feel not worthy to be among a certain set – didn’t attend the right school or don’t have the requisite abbreviations to follow their name. I know what that feels like. Good thing I'm pigheaded, have a bigger vision and committed to my craft, or I would’ve succumbed to it long ago. That is why when I meet an emerging writer who’s serious about developing their craft, I try to encourage them as much as I can. I say IGNORE the highbrow cliques and prove your mettle by growing, accepting balanced feedback and most of all, creating work that will stand the test of time. Period.

Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.

Things that will make you unstoppable;Get the naysayers out of your life,Take charge of your destiny,Be uncommon,Be relentless, andNever look backwards.

Things that will make you unstoppable;Get the naysayers out of your life,Take charge of your destiny,Be uncommon,Be relentless, andNever look backwards.

Don't think that just because you made it to the next level that the haters and naysayers disappear. Remember, new levels bring new devils.

When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, “My life has just begun.

When anyone tells me I can’t do anything, I’m just not listening any more.