You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.
..The stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job.
You do not own the molecules. They are stardust. They belong to God. What you do own is your soul. Nobody can take that away from you.
...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people-a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.
The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.
Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.
If you’re creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn’t the case. So dust off your horn and start tooting.
They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now?
GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.
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