Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.

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.

Facts which were new to me were daily presenting themselves to my mind.

Words writ in waters.

Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.

When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.

There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth.

Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.

A bachelor is only half a man

There is no way to learn to pray but by praying.