“Group projects are the exception in school, but they should be the norm.”

“The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.”

“A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.”

“I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a project, then of course you will associate risk with failure.”

“Transparency in the traditional school might destroy it.”

“What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.”

“Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.”