Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or creative.

Most people doubt online meeting scan work, but they somehow overlook that most in person meetings don't work either.

It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution.

The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.

Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.

Lust and the English make no sense to me.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!