In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. read more

In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical
accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people,
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Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical
accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people,
however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things
turn out.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things
turn out.

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like read more

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but read more

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would
never want to do it any other way.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would
never want to do it any other way.

Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated
from the cataract of accepted belief.

Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated
from the cataract of accepted belief.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every
morning.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every
morning.