You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

Think off-center.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don’t think they’re doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.