You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.

Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.

No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.

If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.