Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.
All is connected. . . no one thing can change by itself.
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.
Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.
The CRAFT approach, developed by Bob Meyers at U of New Mexico, is one set of important tools that DO work, and it feels great to see families using these strategies and getting results, feeling hopeful again, feeling empowered, getting support, learning to trust themselves again, getting their lives and the lives of their children back.
When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
These ante meridiem cats, insomniacs. . . Four in the mornin' we throwin back some Cognac juice.
I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.