How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn’t big ’cause they ran a lot of ads. They’re big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.
The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.
You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
The librarian isn’t a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.
We’re better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting – ’cause you’re never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?
When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we’re much more likely to actually create value.
That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread.
The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.
Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
I see things differently when I’m focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
I hope I’m better looking than Yoda, but – I’m really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can’t figure out why they can’t make it spread.
The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.
There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.