Commitments start small, but you can’t afford to dwell within a commitment. You must think around the commitment where the inevitable obstacles await. If there is a single obstacle you can’t handle, you either self-evolve your commitment to handle it, or your commitment will crumble.

Being aware as a creative of who you are, why you do something, and why people should come work with, is essentially important.

Everything comes back to identity. Who are we? We can't help that.

Fun kills fear.

Maintain your collaborative skills—which you’ve been socialized to have, and develop your make-believe skills—which you’ve been socialized to give up, and then you can have the best of both worlds.

Whenever I want to solve a problem, the first thing I do is, I go: ‘Imagination on.’ Like a superpower. I just visualize and try to put myself in the moment, and then solutions come to me.

We are in an era where empathy is hugely important.

If you make-believe, you’re constantly working the muscle in your brain to see the world from other people’s eyes.

Negotiation is about influence. We're trying to change someone else's mind. How can we possibly expect to influence someone else if we can't first influence ourselves? It all begins with self-mastery.

The real opportunity exists when we expand the pie before you divide it up.

If you think of [negotiation] as a creative challenge, you can see it as an opportunity.

Creativity is our biggest resource in negotiation.

We're having to invent new ways of making decisions together.

It's up to us to turn the tide and bring back the health of the planet so that our future generations can live in a peaceful, beautiful environment.

Environmental protection and respect for others all starts on your own doorstep.

Where music takes over, where words finish.

I could just sense as a stone sculptor can sense that there is a statue within a bit of sandstone, I could sense there was a violin sitting in that log.

As a player in the highland tradition he feels that instruments pass energy from the tree that they have picked up from the historic moments when these individuals were around them. That kinetic energy travels through the makers into the wood and then finally is released through the player who picks up energy and is able to hear and understand tunes from that in folk tradition, in that piece of wood.

This violin is now an envoy for peace and reconciliation through the power of music and it's in the spirit of Wilfred Owen.

My motto and Thorens motto is to give trees a voice and by taking a branch you save an incredible gentle giant and one of the lungs of the earth, which is our prime concern being environmentalists.

I think if you're really going to be in something for the long haul, then you need to be prepared for a little rain sometimes

We're trying to create a culture that's relaxed and friendly and acknowledges a healthy work/life balance

Having the resistance and persistence to keep going even when life gets really difficult is much more important and much more powerful

I do believe that we can become more courageous, we can become braver by applying this process (of breaking down difficult tasks); it's a skill, you can learn it and you can get better

(Courage is a skill) There is nobody, I believe, who is born fearless. We're not born with an innate courage to tackle any challenge or take on any difficult mission.