The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it

There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.

Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.