Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.


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You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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To get a medal in a world record race is just fantastic.
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JON LANDAU
I held top-secret security clearance.
JON OSSOFF
I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just ...
JON BELLION
I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the pa...
JON OSSOFF
It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. Wha...
JON MEACHAM
I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, ...
JON MEACHAM
We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very ve...
JON BATISTE
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private ...
JON MEACHAM
If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for...
JON FAVREAU
We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings d...
JON STEWART
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the reje...
JON MEACHAM
Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood...
JON KYL
I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay ...
JON JOHANSEN
I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You w...
JON ANDERSON
Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. ...
JON FOREMAN
I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a ...
JON RONSON
The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells fo...
JON RONSON
I would say television is a focus, and expanding our channel platform is a focus. As for buying libr...
JON FELTHEIMER
I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in ...
JON KRAKAUER
Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.
JON LOVITZ
The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all ...
JON ORINGER
There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. ...
JON RONSON
Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family...
JON KATZ
I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food.
JON STEWART
Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.
JON KRAKAUER
For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, lik...
JON FAVREAU
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriag...
JON MEACHAM
Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reaso...
JON MEACHAM
Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not cov...
JON PORTER
The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed wi...
JON VOIGHT
Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archety...
JON FAVREAU
To ensure we are meeting the demands of existing customers while also attracting new users, we remai...
JON ORINGER
If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack u...
JON STEWART
History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and...
JON MEACHAM
We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healt...
JON CORZINE
Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly ...
JON MEACHAM
Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are subs...
JON LANDAU
I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never hav...
JON SCIESZKA
There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people ...
JON STEWART