Creators love creations before they exist.

Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

Without making the fundamental choice to be the predominant creative force in your life, no matter what you do to attempt to benefit yourself or enhance your life, you will merely be finding more sophisticated ways of responding to circumstances.

You want what you want, whether or not you think you can have it.

Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience joy, and in jubilant circumstances they may feel regret. They know that any emotion will change. But because emotions are not the centerpiece of their lives, they do not pander to them. They create what they create, not in reaction to their emotions but independent of them. On days filled with the depths of despair, they can create. On days filled with the heights of joy, they can create.

In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.