The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

Be a man of value and the universe will pay you for the value you add to it.

If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall, then we think like ancestors who thought there's abyss at the edge of flat earth.

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.

In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.

Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities.

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry

I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.

Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.