It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.
Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.
Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.
Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.
Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.
We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.
Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.
If we have a president who asked for a mandate on combating gun violence, as Hillary Clinton is requesting, that's going to be really impactful. I will certainly defer to her when it comes to the exact pace and content of legislative action, but I expect it will be at the top of her agenda. It will certainly be at the top of mine.
Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania.
The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.