Defeats are merely repeats with better information.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.

Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.

It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community.

I think that the role of curating an exhibition is to reanimate history and make it relevant to a contemporary viewer.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.