Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Presenting a rational argument to a person who has forsaken the use of reason is like asking a vegetarian to eat a cheeseburger.

O, you the goldfish ofthe swamp of my blood.Let your drunkenness be pretty.You are drinking me.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.

I know guys that are going to struggle. I know guys that don't play and 'bean' up. To me, that's becoming pretty reliant on something. It's going to have an effect. I don't think there's any doubt.

This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn't say how far to separate them.

When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing.

The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.

I think of myself as just another consumer.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.