The first step is to recognize what you need to know and why you need to know it.

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.

Let us imitate nature—not each other.

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

Sooner or later, everybody dreams of other worlds.

I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went....it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them.

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

I always had deep respect for my peoples 'cause of the love they gave me and the know how that they showed me through the years.

It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.