How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes

I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.

In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if you want to know why someone does what they do, start with what they know, what they believe and where they came from. Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart.

And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody.

Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.

In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.