words of wisdom

There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

-Elon Musk

Fear leads to self-doubt which is the worst enemy of creativity.

-David Ogilvy

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

-Scott Adams

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible.

-William S. Burroughs

Replace fear with curiosity.

-Steven Spielberg

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

-Georgia O’Keeffe

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

-Georgia O’Keeffe

The question isn’t who is going to let me; It’s who is going to stop me.

-Ayn Rand

When I am completely myself, entirely alone during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.

-Mozart

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

-Jean Dubuffet