Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by

Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.

You will not be stuck forever. The trick is to know there are no tricks. There is, in fact, no easy way. There is only the work.

Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros.

Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.

The best ideas must move you before they can move someone else.

In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we’re going to whine or do the work.

In the digital economy, if you can't be trusted you have no business doing business.

You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.

Every lighthouse knows that when the giant waves come, no one will help! And when you know that no one will help you, you fight more seriously!

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.

My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.

Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.