I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.
You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all. . . If that happens, you're doing it right.
Great stories happen to those who can tell them.
What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not… your taste is why your work disappoints you… We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this… It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one
Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.
When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.
I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.