Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.

If you don't have the best people you hurt everyone.

Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.

Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.

How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function.

At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

Execution is the job of the business leader.

I'm just going to keep going and goind and going until I can't go anymore.

It's a small closet."... "It's a walk-in the size of Rhode Island, " he teased... "Isn't that just like a man to exaggerate the size of something?

Is your life really so bad? This city is full of opportunities –”“Can you call it a city?” Marcus asked. “No gymnasium, no theatre, no forum? Where is the life a Roman man should lead?

I've got nothing against L.A. I think it is a really beautiful place. To be able to surf and get out in the Pacific Ocean every once in a while. The hiking, all of that is amazing. I love it there.

Why do I have to feed the kids? They just ate twelve hours ago!

If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted me in the orchestras.

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.

It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

Your body begins to change when it burns and shakes... so when an exercise is challenging, I always think 'feel your body changing.