thekenshow's quotes

To play it safe is not to play.

You can't sit around and wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.

It is too close, so we overlook it.
It seems to good to be true, so we cannot believe it.
It is too profound, so we cannot fathom it.
It is not outside ourselves, so we cannot attain it anew.

If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case.

Better an imperfect dome in Florence than cathedrals in the clouds.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate.