Aside from the equivalent of blowing up the lab or letting a pathogen escape, the only failure is spending too long or too much money to learn.

Think about how you will start and where you will go. Get the head with logic and the heart with visuals or stories. And think about your core customer and all the other stakeholders as well.

Checklists are really helpful ways to remind people around how to manage complicated tasks.

I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.

Why do people do crossword puzzles? There's no reward for completing one, but some people just like the challenge.

I've never seen impeccable logic be sufficient to win both the heart and the mind.

I'm not very good at sitting still.

In my mind, so-called "cultures of innovation" really boil down to one word: curiosity.

In the early stages of innovation, your goal is to learn as much as you can as quickly as you can.

People who copy what exists copy a point-in-time artifact, and if you are managing the process correctly you are already hard at work on the next thing.

Hollywood Joohn Tatum? He does at least 6,000 sit ups and 10,000 pushups a day!

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

The greatest treasures of your life are associated with the people you love and who love you in return.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

This choice is yours, and will only be yours, it's up to you to commit.

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his ifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue.