Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead.... The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance.

What great executives do is not magic. Their performance is made possible by specific, identifiable skills.

Often people freeze under severe pressure, but that says nothing about their ultimate capability- only their level of preparation.

The principles that make someone a master in the chief executive role deal with whether or not they can thrive in an environment of ongoing duress, and teach others how to do so.

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

The central premise of great leadership is recognizes that fundamental fact, that not of us are fixed entities, and taking responsibility for making sure that we bring out our people's best selves.

The intelligence gap is essentially a shortage of executives with superior thinking skills who are needed by every business, as compared with the number of decision-making positions available.

Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend a lifetime in its ongoing pursuit.

Friendship is as great as a True FriendAnd a True Friend is as great as Friendship.

I raise my face to his, ready for the crush of his lips against mine, wanting to share more than these nervous breaths.

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.

If you can see the invisible, then you can see the possible and provide the opportunities for trust, commitment and ways of empowering others to manage their past, present and future.

The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

I'm standing for real freedom.