The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.

My job [is] to awaken possibility in other people. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it. If they're not shining you get to ask this question: "Who am I being that my children's eyes are not shining?"

Live the rest of your life in possibility

As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.

I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.

how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.