To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them.

Life is a continual process of arrival into who we are..

We are a collage of our interests, our influences, our inspirations, all the fragmentary impressions we've collected by being alive and awake to the ….

Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious..

This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other wit….

In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of ….

Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world..

When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell you who you are….

Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possib….

I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be in love with the reality of your own life..

Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydrea….

You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible cas….

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings by our efficiency, o….

Build pockets of stillness into your life..

When I discovered PopTech and other kind of intellectualish, online portals for curiosity. Very quickly, I just got so much more out of those than fr….

Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It's so much easier to be a critic than a cele….

Most of us live our lives desperately trying to conceal the anguishing gap between our polished, aspirational, representational selves and our real, ….

Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving. And yet for all but the very fort….

Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to lock down s….

he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth livin….

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view..