“I define empathy as the ability to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes and to understand and connect with what they are feeling - to feel what they’re feeling. You first have to understand the world as they see it through their eyes.”

Good listeners listen to what people say, and great listeners notice what people don’t say. When you know the neuroscience of listening, you realize that people can think up to nine times faster than they can speak. So the first thing they say is probably between ten and fourteen percent of what they are thinking.

“I found that what’s most important in life is connection and how we connect with life, because, after all, life isn’t about us; we’re about life.”

“Be yourself and enjoy what you’re doing because life is too short.”

“The reality is, we are all interconnected and there’s a broader perspective that a lot of people don’t have on how my actions and the actions of our community then affect the actions of our state, which affect the actions of our country.”

“I would really hate it if I wasn’t a possibilities thinker.”

“Where there is curiosity, the adult in the child and the child in the adult are awaken. This is how innovation happens.”

"I find that the best, most meaningful networking relationships occur inside the context of living your life and being fully present in the opportunities that show up."

“The future pulls us out of the past, and pulls toward the dream, and what’s possible.”

“As you learn to evaluate a situation from the standpoint of the situation, you begin to discover new capacities in yourself that you previously never realized.”

I look at entrepreneurs, particularly founder-inclined people, like modern day superheroes. They are the people that are responsible for taking on the biggest challenges, with the longest, toughest odds, and overcoming incredible obstacles. And if and when they’re successful, they’re likely to change the world.”

“If you can, and I think you probably can, see yourself as part of something bigger than yourself.”