It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?

As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.