I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.

There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.