As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.
Success hides problems. . . you don't need to address problems.
If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up.
If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.
We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways. Finally, we try to identify those impediments and fix them.
Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.
Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?
Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally. . . Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.
And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?
When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.