Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

Believe that there are no limitations, no barriers to your success --- you will be empowered and you will achieve.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

The world is changing. We all know this. And as that world changes, if you don't transform your company, you're stuck.

I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

Where you are is not who you are

My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.

I'm an advocate for change and eager to break a little glass when needed.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

Everyone will say I'm insane, but I don't care, Rose. Is it insane to marry the girl I love? A girl with golden brown hair, with gifts of beauty and goodness and storytelling?

Love is quite like reading, I expect. Once you know how, you can't ever imagine not doing it.

Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss.

For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.

How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.

I would be Jesse Martin ..., but not to be his character, just so I could be Jesse Martin and sing like Jesse Martin for a day.

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop.

I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'