I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.
Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.
Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.
Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.
The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.
Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.
Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.
The Old Language really was beautiful, Blay thought. Staring at the symbols, for one brief, ridiculous moment he imagined his own name across Qhuinn's shoulders, carved into that smooth skin in the manner of the mating ritual. Never going to happen. They were destined to be best friends. . . which, compared to strangers, was something huge. Compared to lovers? It was the cold side of a locked door.
In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on suing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.
When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her multiple OF golden chalices to humming birds And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.
Two things hold promise of improving those lights. One is to apply science to land-use. The other is to cultivate a love of country a little less spangled with stars, and a little more imbued with that respect for mother-earth - the lack of which is, to me, the outstanding attribute of the machine-age.