Marty Nemko Quotes

A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.

Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.

Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.

You need to create a 30-minute buffer between the end of your work time and sleep time.

Essayists write at a length that enables them, within a year, to explore a number of topics, whereas in a book, they'll likely only get to address one.

If you have an ability, you want to exercise it, not anesthetize it.

I'm one of the many people for whom coffee helps but often, inattention is a symptom of something else: for example, that you're not getting six to eight hours of sleep.

Answering ads rarely works for career changers because you have no experience in the job for which you're applying.

Sometimes, low-level jobs are challenging even to someone with CEO potential.

Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings.

Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.

It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth prostituting yourself for that.

We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.

What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones.

Entrepreneurship may be the most under-taught subject.

Many psychotherapists believe laziness is usually just the symptom. That the real problem is fear of failure, fear of success, or fear of authority.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.