Soft power is quiet persistence.

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

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

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

The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it.

Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.

Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.