I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.
Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.
Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.
There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.
Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
A dream with a deadline is a goal.
Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.
Why am I voting for Obama? Obama, of all the candidates, is the only one of the major candidates - even more than Hillary Clinton, when they were running against each other - to speak in favor of the defense of the Constitution and the separation of powers.
Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.
The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.