If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.

There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.

Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.

The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings.

Use your natural powers - of persistence, concentration, and insight - to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, and think deeply

The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.

The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time.

he wished for freedom and heaven was granted to him".

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

When an institution goes through an inflection point, it has to institutionalise itself. That institutionalisation requires governance to be put in place, governance processes.

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.

To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.

I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.

The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.