“Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.”

“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.”

“Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.”

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

“If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”

“Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.”

“So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.”