Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
Whether you realize it or not, you have the power to be successful.
If you want to be around people who are positive and enthusiastic and eager to live life, your attitude has to be the same.
The success of any change depends, in large measure, on your attitude about that change.
Don't stifle your career by limiting you knowledge.
Everything you do matters because your team is watching. . . and depending on you to do the right thing.
"To coach" comes from the root meaning "to bring a person from where they are to where they want to be. "
The other thing I've been discussing with friends is: when you're born do you start at a zero, or five?
I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow.
I don't listen to music, and I don't particularly watch television, so if anyone wants to come over and just hang out with me sitting at the table in silence, you know, eating a dish of rice. . . I don't get too many takers.
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.