Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

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

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter.

Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

Set up a life you don't need to escape from.