Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.
Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs.
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
Do your best, one shot at a time, and then move on.
A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
I love the challenge.
The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
I learned to write by writing.
It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.
He who, calm and clear as the moon, hankers no more for continuity-he is holy.
The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or, for that matter, the transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth, or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.