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

Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.

The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.

Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.