Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives.
When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.
In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.
Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.
Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.
I think American industry has lost perspective about their products.
The person you call 'President Obama" and I frankly refuse to call him that. . . at the moment, he is somebody who is kind of an 'alleged usurper' who is alleged to be someone who is occupying that office without constitutional warrant to do so.
When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you had to work 12 to 16 hours a day, knowing you had to be prepared, knowing you had to be ready, and it's very interesting because if you're an artist and you're creating, you can work very, very long hours but as you're putting out that love of creation, it's almost like you're charged by it, you're charged by the process of it.
I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?
Happy Father's Day -- or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law's day.