People either make things or they don't. Inspiration is a poster.

Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.

All self-help is Buddhism with a service mark

Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely.... Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those devil "distractions," and constantly reassessing which shiny new "system" might make your life suddenly seem more sensible - these are all terrifically useful warning flares that you may be suffering from a deeper, more fundamental problem.... Know in your heart that what you're making or doing matters... First, care. Then, as you'll happily and unavoidably discover, all that "focus" business has a peculiar way of taking care of itself.

Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.

Don't just play with your phone: go out and produce something.

Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.