The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.

There is a distressing tendency of the L&D profession to latch on to half read and barely understood concepts.

The cost of a range of appropriate courses and training activities is much less than the cost of incompetence.

There’s a fine line between child-like – learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff – and being child-ish.

A book is a sacred gift.

I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any.

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.

I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road.

We're fighting people that hates our values, they can't stand what America stands for.

I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.

If you are giving back, you took too much.

My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.