The central premise of great leadership is recognizes that fundamental fact, that not of us are fixed entities, and taking responsibility for making sure that we bring out our people's best selves.

Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead.... The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance.

What great executives do is not magic. Their performance is made possible by specific, identifiable skills.

Often people freeze under severe pressure, but that says nothing about their ultimate capability- only their level of preparation.

The principles that make someone a master in the chief executive role deal with whether or not they can thrive in an environment of ongoing duress, and teach others how to do so.

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

The intelligence gap is essentially a shortage of executives with superior thinking skills who are needed by every business, as compared with the number of decision-making positions available.

Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend a lifetime in its ongoing pursuit.

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.

Manufactured spirit is much more reliable than organic spirit.

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us...to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells.

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.

We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.

The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

It's difficult dating, as an actor because your free time is precious. The guy I end up with someday is going to have to love traveling.