Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across."

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

What gets measured gets managed.

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

Xander Harris: "Just when you think you know a guy he robs a mass grave and takes off.

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.

I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.

I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me.

Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.

After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

The script is the musical score, and everyone has to play off that score. Even I have to interpret it. The producers are there to eliminate obstacles to that interpretation.