Words matter. These are the best Justine Musk Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Recognition happens when you see yourself from the inside-out: as someone who can make an impact on the world instead of navigating the impact the world has on you.
Extreme success results from an extreme personality and comes at the cost of many other things.
Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world.
We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else’s Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.
We live in a culture that celebrates determination and hard work, but understand, these are the qualities that keep you in the game after most everybody else has left – or until somebody bigger and stronger picks you up and hurls you back out to sea.
I’ve noticed that women who pursue recognition rather than attention have a different relationship with aging. They’re not dropping tens of thousands of dollars on plastic surgery. When they have to choose between looking older – or looking odd – they’ll go with older.
The world doesn’t throw a billion dollars at a person because the person wants it or works so hard they feel they deserve it.
Artemis women often have difficult childhoods. She’s the kid who seeks comfort in the woods, or animals, or books. If trapped in an authoritarian family, she blends in to get by – but keeps a fierce autonomy inside her head and heart, looking to the day she breaks free.
Fear is a powerful beast. But we can learn to ride it.
Every time a confident, successful woman like Marissa Meyer distances herself from feminism, I think of Athena. Athena women, with all their brilliance and strategy, are the ones smashing up through layers of glass. They tend to identify with men, keeping femininity at a distance.
Keep your body sharp to keep your mind sharp.
I have struggled with self-esteem issues since my teens, but it’s clear in my first long-ago diary that I didn’t start out that way. I acquired my low self-esteem. I learned it.
You have to have a spirit of courage and adventure, or else you’re going to find it tough to get up in the morning sometimes.
Why strive to be ‘elite’? Because it infuses your life with purpose and meaning that does not depend on anyone or anything that can ever be taken away from you.
Extreme people combine brilliance and talent with an insane work ethic.
Money is rarely just money. Sometimes it stands in for love or self-esteem or freedom or a sense of control over your destiny (especially if you lacked these things in childhood).
I don’t think it’s that difficult to distinguish between people with narcissistic disorders and people with high self-esteem.
A lot of people work extremely hard and through no fault of their own – bad luck, the wrong environment, unfortunate circumstances – struggle to survive.
Don’t pursue something because you ‘want to be great.’ Pursue something because it fascinates you, because the pursuit itself engages and compels you.
What is it that you’re not doing – in your work, in your life – because you feel you need permission? If someone had given you that permission as a youngster, what do you think you’d be doing now?
