Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

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

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

I think you inhaled too much lead from those scantron sheets

There is no point in getting rich if we lose our soul along the way.

I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.

Shared history was the coin of the realm.

Good because I want you too. Now. Forever. Just you

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.