La tactique, c'est ce que vous faites quand il y a quelque chose à faire; la stratégie, c'est ce que vous faites quand il n'y a rien à faire. -- Xavier Tartacover

If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it ain't fun -- it's entertainment. -- David Mamet (as relayed by Joss Whedon)

I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra

In terms of energy, it's better to make a wrong choice than none at all. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~Henry Kravis

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt