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.

Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.

I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.

The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.