There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.

And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody.

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.

It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived.