“Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
— steve jobs
From his Stanford commencement speech, June 2005, one year after his pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
In 1985 the board of the company I founded fired me. I was 30 and publicly humiliated. For months I listened to everyone telling me who I was supposed to be next. Then I stopped. I started NeXT and Pixar because I trusted my gut, not their noise. Whatever you keep silencing inside you because someone said it's stupid, listen to it this week. That voice is the only one that knows.