If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.

You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

Say what you believe and see who follows.