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

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

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

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.