What you learned in school is how to think. What you learn on the job is how to think in a way that makes you valuable to your employer.

It takes fifteen years to have fifteen years of experience.

Competence comes with experience.

Dominators, one of the things they really love to do is make us think that everything in our life is an isolated incident.

Nothing will make you more aware of how deceitful the media is than being covered by the media.

The Muslims say that the human being is an obedient creature, and the question is to what am I going to be obedient? And to what degree am I willing to sacrifice for that obedience? A lot of us are obedient to our egos.

What's a riot to one person is an uprising to another.

You can teach collaboration, but you can't teach rebellious behavior.

How to you balance authenticity with irony?

It's never been easier to stand out in the clutter because there is so much clutter. Being thoughtfully rebellious, allows us to apply our messages and designs and photography in ways that we can find unique things and unique messages.

There's a pretty good chance that you paid for parking, that you drove down here, you got in this seat, and I'm going to ruin your career.

We're taught indoctrinated with this way of thinking before we're even of an age to make decisions about what kind of people we want to be.

To me, the realest rebels are actually very obedient. We're very loyal. We're obedient to something that is unpopular.

If you have a clear idea, passion and energy and you follow it, you can make anything.

Make yourself uncomfortable.

Being an artist, you don't really wait for people to tell you to do something, you just do it, and do or die, you just find means to get it done.

If you put a price to it, anything can be exchanged, including personal space.

There’s a freedom to improvise without worrying about getting it wrong. There’s a freedom to imagine without constraints. And there’s a freedom to dive in and love the uncertainty of all of this.

If you ignore a return on investment in what you’re creating, you can be more creative.

I believe in connecting. We all do it, we all need it, and we don’t get enough of it.

Seeing great artists in Austin gives me goose bumps, literally, and just makes me so proud to be a part of this city. I mean how lucky are we to live here?”

Us people in the creative class are extremely self-destructive.

Keep an open mind and learn as much as you can.

We need to create work environments that encourage non formal learning. - Ben Henderson

Creative people have a very low pain tolerance. We get sick of people telling us the way to do things and how things should be done, so we find our own way.