Bo Ryan Quotes

A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be.

Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.

If you’re struggling to “think outside the box” remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?

Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.

We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse?

The ashes of the past drift away on the winds of the future. ~ Ryan Mark, Author

I did wonder if I'd have cause to rue my action. Now I believe it can safely be filed under Necessary Regrets.

It was true—but it was harsh. And it feels like maybe a harsh truth can be as hurtful as a lie.

I don't think you feel much of anything anymore.

Life is a series of lessons in which there is never enough learned.

Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away.

I've never bowed to anyone, but will gladly live the rest of my life on my knees before you, if you'll be mine.

I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.

I sit with my knees pulled in tight and my arms wrapped around my shins. I can no longer feel my feet, as if blood refuses to spread so far from my heart.

GRIEF TAUGHT ME TO LIVE NUMB. Death takes more than just the one life. It thieves tiny particles from the ones left behind until you feel only half alive.

Since we all know for a fact that we're all going to die, why don't we all treat each other like we could lose each other at any minute?

I have a number of questions. If I had half as many answers, I’d be in great shape.

Sorry doesn’t make anything better. It’s just a word to fill the space of a loss of words.

Hey, Jimmy.”“Yeah.”“You ever think about how long we’re going to live?”“No, ” he says. “Not really.”“Well, why not?”“I dunno. Guess I’m too busy livin’ it to think about it.

Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move.

I'm friends with a guy who is friends with a former Playboy model. So I guess you could say I'm 1 degree away from 212 degrees.

Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.

We’re starting to see a renaissance of investors embracing the idea that scientists can build businesses

The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it.

Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.

Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

Capitalize on charm by continually captivating your customer.

20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.

Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.

Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we’ll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don’t ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it.

A personal brand, once local and temporal, is now global and forever. That’s the blessing and the curse of the internet with regards to your reputation.

The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire.

Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream.

Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream.

She fed off it. Taking all of their positive life forces into herself. She was nourished by it, basked in it, and knew she was loved.

What am I?" she asked ..."You are mine, " he answered roughly, his forehead still on hers.

You scared the life out of me.""Good thing cats have nine lives, then, " she teased.

Telling a male lion not to be a lion wasn't exactly the easiest thing in the world.

First, there will be no kidnapping. I know you're stronger and bigger and have magic and crap, but I'm drawing the line at kidnapping.

She was the last lightning-struck without a mate, and therefore, human.

Rubbing absently at my temple, I do declare this woman leaves me flabbergasted and tongue tied.

I loathe being crimped into this deplorable position on the vampyre chessboard.

Eyes darker than a midnight lake penetrate my thoughts with their intensity, and a big hand warmly covers mine

she shakes her head, fisting hands into my t-shirt and sobbing into my neck. And all I can think about is how good this feels

You can only push me so far little slakax, and then I will do what has to be done, with or without your permission.