If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?

There was something important being overlooked, they argued, in the mainstreaming of meditation - a central plank in the Buddhist platform: compassion.

...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future.

All we can do is everything we can do. (David Axelrod)

If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)

Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.

When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.

Playing safe, hiding among the masses, will rarely get you noticed.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work.

If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.

It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.

Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves.

Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!

May we try to listen and be silent in order to make space for the beauty of God.