When your art fails, make better art.
The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.
Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.
Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.
Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.
Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.