A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.
Don't settle for less than is possible.
Hire for attitude. Train for skill. . . More
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.
In underground music, there seems to be this real inability for people to express themselves in any kind of heroic or mythological way. There's this idea that we're all normal joes, and that creating a persona onstage or having schtick is somehow false and misleading and evil.
The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about. . . Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
I learned the hard way that not only do you not have to be superwoman, but it's better not to be and not to try to be. What I would like to be is just a good person - someone who tries her best and puts her best foot forward.