Hugh MacLeod

"Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it."

"They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now?"

"The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does."

"Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please."

"The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care."

"The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you anymore. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction."

"Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world."

"The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does."