Mission + tools. That’s really what it takes to have focus...you fail at focus because whatever you are trying to focus on isn’t important enough to you.

Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.

Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.

Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?

Your day is your week is your month is your year.

Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

Fear is at the heart of most of our worst choices.

Social media puts the "public" into PR and the "market" into marketing.

The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.

Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.

Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

You're human. It's one of the things humans do. Lies just spring out, even unbidden and unintended.

We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

I can tell when an actor's forcing tears, and it's tricky because you then have to film it and edit in a certain way to skirt around the issue.

Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

Sometimes the right path is not always the easiest.

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

If you perform your part, God will fulfill His. And once you put off specifically, you should just as thoroughly believe that God will renew your mind, despite the fact you know not how.