Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping.

It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.

In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

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.

Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.