You cannot buy your way to share of voice today; you cannot buy attention anymore.

Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.

Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.

If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.

Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.