When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.

If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.

Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.

Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.