Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.

Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.