You'll probably have to find the city where you feel at home to know what sort of ambition you have. — Paul Graham

Many people won't attempt something unless they can find an example of someone else who is already doing it. Rely on this type of thinking too much and you'll never do anything interesting. Your path through life is unique. It is important to extract lessons from the experiences of others, but you can't wait for a perfect example to take action. You are the example.

When you're an artist, you are searching for freedom. You'll never find it, because there ain't any freedom. But at least you searched for it. In fact, art should be called "the search."

Creativity is inherently anti-authoritarian. As in: to be successfully creative, you have to shed the part of yourself that desperately wants reassurance. It’s only then that you can escape cliche and escape paradigmatic thinking.