Today it’s economically crucial and personally rewarding to create something that is also beautiful, whimsical, or emotionally engaging.

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.

Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.

Once you learn how to diw, you learn how to live

For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

A useless life is an early death.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

I have great confidence in you to do what you think best. State your opinion and always act with courage.

How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm

I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.

Anything works, as long as you write it properly.