Three tips to stay in your strength zone. 1. Know your top five strengths.2. Align with them.3. Practice gratitude.

Those who win are those who think they can.

Iterate. Iterate Iterate.

You can't avoid success if you disown your fear.

Failure is inevitable, success is optional.

The uber successful are those who breed success in others.

Obstacles are a measure of the intensity of your passion.

Excellence never seeks excuses.

If they aren't laughing at your goals, you are not dreaming big enough.

The idea you implement is more important than the ideas you collect.

If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working for it.

Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.

Life is too short for it to be used to accumulate a harem of enemies.

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.

From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing.

It was just enough to sit there without words.

I make films but I am trained as a designer. I come from this series of designers called critical designers, speculative designers.

That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.