Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.

When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.

The amateur tweets. The pro works.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.