“I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day ...” — Leonard Mlodinow Quote

I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Intentionality and talent always matter. An extraordinary feat is certainly made more likely by someone's focus, hard work, etc. But chance also matters.

Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.

I was a sign language interpreter from when I was 17, but I don't do that anymore. Both of my parents were deaf. I grew up in a deaf household. I don't do any jokes about it really, but yeah that was my day job.

My day job has always been in the theatre.

You should never quit your day job.

I'm not nervous coming back to my old audience. I'm looking forward to it. That's really what I do; that's my day job.

I think whether it's a good idea or not to take the startup plunge comes down to the responsibilities of the individual. If you have a family to care for or a huge mortgage payment, then quitting your steady day job to launch a startup probably isn't the best decision to make.