“It’s not about how much work you’re doing. It’s about what work you’re doing and how you’re doing the work.”

Drama in our lives is the greatest indicator that we’re not focused on meaningful goals. On the path to purpose you don’t have time for drama.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you’re definitely not an expert.

Choosing our own aims and seeking to bring them to fruition creates a sense of vitality and motivation in life. The only things that derail our efforts are fear and oppression.

When the world question your abilities, respond with your actions.

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

The time you want the map, is before you enter the woods.

Why having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice?

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.

Selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.

Aliveness doesn’t happen in silence. Aliveness doesn’t happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.

If your guard is up, let it down. If you’ve constructed a defensive wall to protect yourself and keep all the bad guys out, don’t forget who that wall also prevents from getting in – the good guys.

As soon as you seek to inspire others, it inspires the best in you.

We have to reconceptualize and understand that the act of pursuing our dreams and being our full selves is what allows us to feel alive.

The more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

When I get high anxiety, I vomit. My mom was so stressed out. Then I found out I was staying in John Mayer’s old dorm room, and I had a nice roommate. That completely brought me down. I was completely comfortable at Berklee.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they’re constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

I guess I started running when I was about 18 and… I feel like it assists my creativity a bit because it completely just flushes everything out.

You can’t be creative when you’re completely happy.

If someone’s criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don’t want to hear it. It doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

The older you get, the less seriously you take criticism. I’ve gotten to a point now where I ignore it completely. It’s just not relevant to me anymore.

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.