Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.

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.

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

Don't make it new

The moon is very charming, alluring, attracting and magical, not because of its beauty, but because of its illusion and reflection of change.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

'The Amazing Race' has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It's smart, it's funny, and it's entertaining as hell.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

I believe in order to understand

Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.