You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.

Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.

We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.

Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.