The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

People leave managers, not companies

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

To get to ‘yes’ from ‘no’, you may have to journey through ‘maybe’.

The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

It's not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can't just sing about anything.

Well-taught doctrines and principles have a more powerful influence on behavior than rules.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.

I sensed she [Sarah Harmer] had this look on her face like, 'Jesus, if you can do it, I certainly can.' But I had nothing to teach her, let's put it that way.

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

Basketball is sharing.

Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.