The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.
I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.
People were doing business with one another through the Internet already, through bulletin boards. But on the Web, we could make it interactive, we could create an auction, we could create a real marketplace. And that's really what triggered my imagination, if you will, and that's what I did.
It is not really work if you are having fun.
Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected. . . you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.
You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.
I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.
As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.
The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil
My gift is execution; when I decide I'm going to do something, I'll stop at nothing to do it. Along the way, you take a lot of risks and go for it, but you have to believe in it. You gotta believe in your idea, and lucky for me, I found a lot of success in that.
The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.