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

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.

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.

Willingness to learn is important, willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.

I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.

Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.

It’s not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed.

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.

You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.