Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.

By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win