“Pretend to be something you’re not until you are—fake it until you’re successful, until everybody sees you the way you want them.”

“Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.”

“If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.”

“Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.”

“You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.”

“Show just a little bit of what you’re working on.”

“Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.”