Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.

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.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.

Everything you need is already within you. The beauty of life is that your DESTINY lies always in your hands. The time has come for you to STEP UP and BE GREAT

One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

I can make choices that make me happy, and it will ripple and benefit my kids, my husband, and my physical health. That's hard for women to own; we're not taught to do that.

I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.