Dan Becker

“Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box”
― Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“All I know for certain is that this is how I want to spend my life—collaborating to the best of my ability with forces of inspiration that I can neither see, nor prove, nor command, nor understand. It’s a strange line of work, admittedly. I cannot think of a better way to pass my days.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”
― Garrison Keillor, Good Poems

“I’ve learned that disagreements with James often occur because one of us knows something that the other does not. Usually it’s not something obvious; it’s a hidden assumption. Sometimes you have to keep digging—keep arguing, but I mean that in a friendly, searching-for-the-truth kind of way—to figure out what the hidden assumption is, because once you expose it, then the right answer suddenly comes into clear focus. Given this experience, I was comfortable disagreeing with James, fully expecting that we’d eventually work it out. In this case, the discussion went on for many months. (This willingness to cooperatively disagree, working together to try and get to the right solution, is an aspect of our culture that I try to promote.)”
― Dave Hitz, How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business