Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.

Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

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.

Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

You can be right or you can have empathy. You can't do both.