Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.

Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.

No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced.

The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.