Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.

Great work is always shunned at first.

When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.

The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.