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.

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

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

Living in new shapes, reshapes our thinking

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Everybody that you can think of that does comedy, I have met or worked with almost all of them.

The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.

He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

That was the peak. I just knew it was modern, not traditional culture. I could be cool

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.