The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.

Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -

One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.

Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.