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To get things done, you have to get people together.

It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.

You have to make one thing a priority and achieve balance that way, rather than trying to do everything all at once.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.

I've had so many experiences where everyone is very polite about each other's working process, which can lead to work where everyone seems to be in different plays.

In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.

You have to put work into relationships to keep them fun.