Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere.

The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.

Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.

The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person.

If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction.

How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.