Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work.

If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.

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.

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.

Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.