Grit Is The Stubborn Refusal To Quit.

Children Can't Help But Create: They Need To Put Their Mind On The Page, They Want To Paint, To Sculpt, To Write Short Stories.

We Need To Be Willing To Risk Embarrassment, Ask Silly Questions, Surround Ourselves With People Who Don't Know What We're Talking About. We Need To Leave Behind The Safety Of Our Expertise.

So Let's Not Pretend That Travel Is Always Fun. We Don't Spend 10 Hours Lost In The Louvre Because We Like It, And The View From The Top Of Machu Picchu Probably Doesn't Make Up For The Hassle Of Lost Luggage. (more Often Than Not, I Need A Holiday After My Holiday.) We Travel Because We Need To, Because Distance And Difference Are The Secret Tonic Of Creativity. When We Get Home, Home Is Still The Same. But Something In Our Mind Has Been Changed, And That Changes Everything.

...new Ideas Are Merely Several Old Thoughts That Occur At The Exact Same Time.

[it's] Troubling Because It Reminds Us How Difficult It Is To Prove Anything. We Like To Pretend That Our Experiments Define The Truth For Us. But That's Often Not The Case. Just Because An Idea Is True Doesn't Mean It Can Be Proved. And Just Because An Idea Can Be Proved Doesn't Mean It's True. When The Experiments Are Done, We Still Have To Choose What To Believe.