Change demands new learning.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.

It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.

No matter how high buildings you make, your soul needs to be where it belongs.

Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human being and all it meant to be one.

Never interrupt an author when he or she is ‘in the zone’, else you’ll understand the real meaning of ‘writer’s nib’.

I'm not trying to run away from my fans at all. I want them to grow with me.

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

People rarely do what they don't want to.