There is a tremendous problem in modern culture. We have become used to everything coming to us with tremendous speed and ease. It is a culture where….

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds..

I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at obs….

The idea of social performance, that we're always performing identities, is something I got fairly obsessed with. I think it's probably because I am ….

Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time..

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies..

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways..

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus..

You have a set of skills, a way of looking at the world, and often in childhood it was revealed to you by things that you were just kind of naturally….

The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if they just succumbe….

I like lecturing and going around the world and giving talks and I like doing consulting and helping people..

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people..

When it comes to fertility, there are so may things that have to go right. In any one individual, there might be one major problem and two minor ones….

It's fortunately a kind of society we live in where we can be diverse. People can take different paths and not feel like they're doing something wron….

Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it..

When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all..

I also make movies that can be seen on a small screen, as I shoot on digital video. Hopefully they can be seen small and can live like that..

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence..

If you have no enemies, find a way to make them..

If you love music and it requires hours of practice that can be boring, you can survive the boredom, you're not going to love it but you can survive ….

I exercise a lot and I love it. I'm fine. But you know, I'd like to be alive in ten years, that'd be my first priority..