Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
I see things differently when I’m focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
I hope I’m better looking than Yoda, but – I’m really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can’t figure out why they can’t make it spread.
The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.
There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn’t do it for money.
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.