Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.

A good job is largely anonymous and forgotten (but still important). A personal job, on the other hand, is humanized. It brings us closer together. It might not be remarkable, but it stands out as memorable because (however briefly) the recipient of the work was touched by someone else. Often, remarkable work is personal too, but personal might just be enough for today.

It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.

True creativity comes from enjoying ?the? moments, which then fulfill themselves, and a part of the creative process is indeed the art of relaxation, the letting go, for that triggers magical activity.

Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.

It doesn't matter if you're right, it matters if you are understood.

More time on the problem isn't the way. More guts is. When you expose yourself to the opportunities that scare you, you create something scarce, something others won't do.