Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

People leave managers, not companies

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly.

Nothing has ever been achieved without trying

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.

Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point in my life or another.

I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.