Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.

Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

We notice what we choose to notice.