Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?
You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be
A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.
The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.
Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.
I don't have to worry about how my movies sell because I'm not the guy in front.
Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages. . It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time. . . "
Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.
When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. Then I drank and I partied - did all that stuff that might tell you maybe there was a little bit of untruth in that [description]. Now, the surprising thing is that when I say stuff, I actually mean it. I don't have to do the work of trying to formulate my point of view. It just is. And it's surprising how much I love life. I just really have a good time.