My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.
Listen to your customers, not your competitors.
Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.
Nothing works better than just improving your product.
If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.
Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.
Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.
You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.
The Spirit of the Lord says that God is placing a crown of manifestation on the heads of His faithful, diligent, chosen saints - a crown of great favor and authority with God and men - a new and greater installment of the fruits and blessings of the Spirit. Another measure, and another, and another.
When you wrap up your self-worth with your talent, and suddenly you might not be the most talented, that's really scary. And I think that fear is in part why I turned to comedy because I had no expectations of being a comedian. It was exciting to get good at something where I wasn't afraid of not being the best.