Leadership cannot be taught. Either you're a leader by the time you're 12 years old, or you never will be.

The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled

The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.

Change - even change meant to improve our lives - creates stress. We can get comfortable with our problems.

Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans.

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.

If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.

Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid.

Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

You can't do kaizen just once or twice and expect immediate results. You have to be in it for the long haul.

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.

You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you.

I'm glad I'm a draw. People know that, not only am I the guy that did it, I spent 40 years on the other side.

While it is important to trash the governor, it should be done in the context of regret, sadness and balance.

If you think your best days are behind you, they are. If you think your best days are ahead of you, they are.

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

I was always accepted at par value. I wore the uniform of a Pan Am pilot; therefore, I must be a Pan Am pilot.

You have to understand not just what your customers need, but how and where they prefer to access information.

Joe Henderson with Ron Carter and Al Foster at the Vanguard was just wow. And the energy of the three of them.

I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. I was like James Bond behind the computer. I was just having a blast.

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.

Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer.

I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be.

I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened to these records [of Bob Gordon]. And I felt it too.

Don't open a bar if you think all you need to be is social and greet the customers. You have to run a business.

No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses.

A Keyring? Achievements? These are not WoW-specific things. They are common sense. They exist in the real world.

Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.

I think everybody thinks they can have the next $100 million venue. I think there is a bit of arrogance in that.

Usually companies hire me, and they know full well who I am, and that's one of the reasons they want to hire me.

I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology.

There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!

We will be far more effective as communicators when we acknowledge our mistakes, and then we try to make them up.

Linkedin is for people you know. Facebook is for people you used to know. Twitter is for people you want to know.

I got to talk to Mel Lewis a lot as a teenager. I think that's what really impacted me the most around that time.

The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.'

If you knew how much information the campaigns had on you, you'd turn off your machines. And I mean that literally.

Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.

Frankly, from my perspective, the bomber jacket is such a classic item you can wear it even when it's not on trend.

I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.

I was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club in New York.

Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a liquor company. Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a bar.

If a candidate puts together a small business platform, I'll go out on the road for him. You know, I'll support him.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

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