In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

All of us want to be part of something bigger than ourselves, something that matters.

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.

Positiveness is not a god gift. Things are negative when you realize that frog inside you is not able to jump high.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.

you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.

My Nan had a plastic hip put in, but I thought she should have replaced it with a Slinky, 'cause if she fell down the stairs again.