Take a chance on your own abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them nor under-assessing them.

It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true.

It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.

It's not enough to be aware of the domain you're working in, you need to understand it. Noticing things and being curious about how they work is the single most common trait I see in creative people. Once you can break the components down, you can put them back together into something brand new.

When you focus on delighting an audience you care about, you strip the masses of their power.

The lizard isn't listening and the lizard doesn't care.

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.