The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation.

The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different.

Companies over-emphasize idea generation and under-emphasize idea execution when it comes to innovation.

We must think of innovation as doing a lot more for a lot less (money) for a lot more (people).

Organizations are not designed for innovation. Quite the contrary, they are designed for ongoing operations.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Lords of space and Lords of time, Lords of blessing, Lords of grace, Who is in the warmer clime?Who will follow Madoc's rhyme?Blue will alter time and space.

I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.

A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.

Today, I embrace my potential to be, do, and have whatever I can dream.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.

See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.