Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.
In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.
From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.
I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.
A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking.
We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.