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If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Don't allow old traditions to become permanent mental scripts for managing your life in the present. Reason: you will not be able to transform yourself to think differently and be better as you grow with age and maturity.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.