Everyone has a dream until it comes to putting in the work. If your work ethic was equivalent to your self worth, how valuable would you be?

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case.

I've had some good ones. I've had Mike Van Worth and Jacob Merrell, and as far as work ethic, Francisco ranks right up there with the best of them.

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

She's a great leader, and her work ethic has been a great inspiration to all of our athletes. She's focused and has her goals set, and we're very fortunate to have her.

Work provides more than just a paycheck -- it's a feeling of self-worth.