Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.

Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.

Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.

The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.

When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?

Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it.

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.