Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the heart will never steer you wrong.

Some people become fully discouraged in life because of their series of mistakes and failures

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.

I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

I would tell kids that the person bullying you is the one with the issues and the insecurities and that they need to be strong and not let anyone tell you that you are not worth it.

In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.

I just don't think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away.