Negative feedback may be fun, but it is far less brave than endorsing something unproven and providing room to grow.

If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up.

We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do.

Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

Success hides problems...you don't need to address problems.

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…

The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier.

We start this new year in the midst of an economic crisis unlike we have seen in our lifetime.

You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock. -Clary Fray to Jace Wayland

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.

Human, all too human.

Cowards cut and run, Marines never do.

A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one.

I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.