"What I've found through this journey... I think as designers, what we need to do first is break down ego-barriers."

"I hate going down the obvious route. I like going down the abstract route, trying to find new ways to highlight ideas and concepts for our clients..."

As far as I’m concerned, before that happened, that was fantasy for me. But it did actually happen so it was reality even though it was improbable but it wasn’t impossible.

Fantasy.. is the activity of imagining something that’s highly improbable or impossible, yet nothing is impossible.

we see opportunities where others see problems

Serendipity is the opposite of predictability.

The human species needs the entire spectrum of personalities because they all have different skill sets, different ways of solving problems.

These days identity has become a substitute for what used to be personality.

If you'd like to get along with people who are fundamentally different to you, I think you need to find things to motivate them in particular.

I started by admitting that I am not a very compassionate person but that's not exactly an impediment. I just need different reasons for doing the right thing.

Fear of the other is natural, inevitable, almost forgivable, and that's why you need courage in order to come together.

[This project worked] by directing [the focus] away from the other as the object of fear and placing it upon our values.

[These posters] provoked a creative tsunami of people reacting to it, making it their own, redesigning it, and it's something I couldn't anticipate.

I wanted to try something after this which was singular and clear and still had some sort of an ironic twist so it would cut both ways.

Nuances that are good artistically get squeezed out of political messaging.

This sort of sarcasm is a little bit cheap and easy in some ways because it affirms nothing, it really risks nothing. And so I wanted to attempt a little bit more.

Maybe the people who disagree with you strongly are not stupid, ignorant or evil...Maybe they have a fundamentally different temperament.

Compassion can do some really great things but it can't cure fear.

You can't cure fear with compassion

What these [images] suggest is that it's easy to be compassionate when you are powerful and not under threat. And that's when you really need to be compassionate the most.

Your story is not the plot, your story is how the plot changed you.

For every success, you're going to trip and fall maybe three or four times.

There are no rules as you move forward into the unknown. Don't go out there unprepared, don't charge ahead without looking forward, don't think about what it's going to feel like when you trip and fall.

Know your audience. I'm not quite sure the people who don't get my jokes or can't appreciate them, I'm not quite sure I want them around me.

Why on earth would you look at somebody beside you and say, "Can I do this? Can I be successful? Can I take my creative idea, my solution and can I succeed?" That's being a pioneer...is NOT doing that.