Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.

It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It's difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work.

I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.

The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.

The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.

What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.

Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.