What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.
In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped.
You want what you want, whether or not you think you can have it.
Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.
It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.
If I'm in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don't need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.
Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.
I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better teaching, to a greater extent than you might think. Folks who don't have an active intellectual life become, though the long years of just teaching, less intellectually alive and exciting.