Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. |

You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience. |

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation. |

Can you not see that the task is your task - yours to dream, yours to resolve, yours to execute? |

We are born makers. We move what we’re learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands. |

Code is what nuts and bolts were a hundred years ago. |

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. |

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? |

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. |

Remember that failure is an event, not a person. |

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. |

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. |

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. |

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. |

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. |

A wise person knows when and how to improvise. |

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity. |

The customer is always right about asking. |

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% inspiration, 9% perspiration, 90% justification. |

No more art. The street is more important than the museum. |

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. |

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station…. |

If you plan for less than your capacity, you get less done than you could have. If you plan for more than your capacity, you get less done than you could have. |

Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing. |