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

The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing . But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are. For now.

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

Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.