Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.

Two different things: A crowd is a tribe without a leader. A crowd is a tribe without communication. Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe.

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody.

We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.

What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.