At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
Isn’t the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It’s not a bad thing to go back there. It’s the entire point.
I think that any time reality doesn’t match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.
It’s easy to pretend expertise when there’s no data to contradict you.
Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.
No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?
That’s your opportunity – to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.
While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there’s no reason to believe you’ll succeed at it tomorrow.
Listen to your fear but don’t obey it.
The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions 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.
No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced.
Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.
All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.
We’ve greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.
Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there’s more pressure not to lose it.
If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you’ve got. Just don’t plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
Nobody says, ‘Yeah, I’d like to set myself up for some serious criticism!’ And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.
More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.