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Average companies give their people something to work on. The most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.
Focus on where you're going and you'll know what steps to take. Focus on the steps you're taking and you won't know where you're going.
Good leadership is always human. It takes time and energy. It is hard work. Which is why good leadership is so special when we find it.
TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.
Some would argue that you're as successful as the company you keep. Certainly there is a connection between our friends and who we are.
Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.
Eating, drinking, sleeping a little laughter ! much weeping! Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm. Wake up! Attain immortal bliss!
I don't feel any pressure to live up to the legacy of my grandfather; if I did, I'd be mad. I'm as much of a fan of his work as anyone.
Ok. don't panic. Don't panic. It's only a VISA bill. It's a piece of paper; a few numbers. I mean, just how scary can a few numbers be?
I had a difficult time getting my arms around Einstein's work, even when I was a physics major at one of the top universities in India.
Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.
There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.
An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.
Network marketing has come of age. It's undeniable that it has become a way to entrepreneurship and independence for millions of people
Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.
The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.
Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?
It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.
I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It`s like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.
My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.
I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.
Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.
We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.
God is a place of safety you can run to, but it helps if you are running to Him on a daily basis so that you are in familiar territory.
No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.
Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.
My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.
A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.
Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our minds...
There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?
The truth is women in the workplace don't have to fight nearly as hard for opportunities, or to dispel stereotypes, as they did before.
Amidst all your cries and laughter let your mind take a moment off, and go still. Look at this moment, this moment alone, and go still.
Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!
I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.
Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?
Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.
Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.
Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.
I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
You can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but if your money “blueprint” isn't set for success, you're financially doomed.
When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the Dharma.
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.
If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets.
She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.