Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

To have a style is to be stuck.

We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise.

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it.

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

Always put yourself around people who want to succeed because when they succeed you will to succeed as well.

From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 good personality. From 55 on she needs good cash. I'm saving my money.

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.

They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.

Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.