The prospect of a certain loss brings the go system online.

When we're determined to reach an objective, it's the gap between where we are and where we aspire to be that lights a fire under us.

Without a sense of urgency, people ... won't make needed sacrafices. Instead they cling to the status quo and resist.' - Quoting John Kotter

... superb presentations - start by establishing "what is: here's the status quo." Then, they "compare that to what could be, " making "that gap as big as possible" - Quoting Nancy Duarte

Instead of courage' management guru Tom Peters recommends fostering 'a level of fury with the status quo such that one cannot not act.

The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader." - Quoting Derek Sivers

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

When I’m away from you I am lost.But when I’m with you, I am lost in you.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk.

A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate.

After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.

I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.

A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.