Play: Play enables me to self-express, reflect, and give my ideas space, which shows up positively in my work.

Who you are is defined by the values you are willing to struggle for.

What determines your success isn’t “What do you want to enjoy?” The question is, “What pain do you want to sustain?”

People who enjoy the stresses and uncertainty of the starving artist lifestyle are ultimately the ones who live it and make it.

happiness requires struggle. The positive is the side effect of handling the negative. You can only avoid negative experiences for so long before they come roaring back to life.

The quality of your life is not determined by the quality of your positive experiences but the quality of your negative experiences. And to get good at dealing with negative experiences is to get good at dealing with life.

99% of your thoughts are useless.

You have the ability to decide what you think. Or, you can choose NOT to think.

“How do I train myself to stop thinking useless thoughts?” Awareness. That’s where it starts. Every time you start drifting off, become aware of it. Just observe your brain. Step outside yourself and just observe the crazy shit you’re thinking about.

Set priorities on Sunday. I outline my weekly priorities and what I want to have accomplished by the following Sunday.

Map out work, play, fit, and push. Work: For each day, I outline my “Top 3,” meaning the three most important things I will have accomplished by the end of the day.

Fit: Movement keeps ideas moving forward so I aim to move my body for at least 30 minutes each day.

Push: Since learning and growth is important to me, I do something that scares me (almost) every day. This may be asking someone whom I deeply respect for an interview or writing about a topic that makes me feel vulnerable.

Batch your days. Batching actions into specific days and creating time for creativity.

CREATE on Monday/Wednesday/Friday: I create holes in my schedule for thinking and creating. On these days, I pay attention to my body and take breaks as needed.

CALLS and MEETINGS on Tuesday/Thursday: When possible, I avoid phone calls and meetings because I find them typically unproductive and often easy to solve via email.

SPONTANEOUS Saturday: With so much structure, I make room for spontaneity. On Saturday, I let go and go where the day takes me. Balancing structure with a day of free-spiritedness makes me feel whole.

INTENTIONAL Sunday: Plan for the week ahead.

I'd always felt like a Canadian living in the U.S.

That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

The only way well know where were going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

I never want to stop making memories with you.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You'd be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence.

I don't know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, 'Is this just a dream?'

There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I'm like, 'Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!'

I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don't necessarily care about anyone else.

All is context. Choose yours carefully where you have a choice.

They gave their money, and they gave their screams. But the Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems. They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then blamed it on us.

I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.

The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.

Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully to love them almost despite themselves.

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

If you don’t think you were born to run you are not only denying history. You’re denying who you are.