Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

People leave managers, not companies

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

Inner peace doesn't have to be religious, spiritual, or impossible. It simply means you think and act with clarity and compassion--no longer conquered by the storms of the mind.

Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.

I have learnt that we expect honesty and genuineness from others, while not being honest and genuine with our own self.

With writing, i can do everything. Make nothing to be something, and then make something to big thing. So, i know, that nothing and big thing is so true as same thing

I'm not on good terms with any of my exes. That's why we're not together anymore. We're not friends.

My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.

In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.