A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.

Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

Habits are more powerful than fears.

The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.