The structure of our identity determines how we show up as a leader, how we deploy ourselves into circumstances.

Leadership’s primary job is to enhance creative capacity by developing collectively effective leadership.

Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies.

Collective leadership effectiveness drives business performance.

When a Promise of Leadership is neglected or unfulfilled, trust is broken, engagement erodes, and performance suffers.

Leaders have the right to expect that others will compassionately recognize them.

Leadership is a conversation.

What you hold in your consciousness tends to manifest—the inner game runs the outer game.

If you want to break through to higher levels of performance, you must allow yourself to be restructured.

To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.

[There is a] quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.

Seems like people always want to think they're doomed. It brings them some kind of black comfort, I guess.Nate

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.

I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking.

The nice thing about being a band that nobody knows about is that you can do whatever you want.

Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.

Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.