Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.

I'm not saying abolish group work - I think there's a time and a place for people to come together and exchange ideas, but let's restore the respect we once had for solitude. And we need to be much more mindful of the way we come together.

I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.