Do everything with Enthusiasm – (Greek “God within”).

If you believe in yourself you know you can do it again! And you are able to assume the requisite risks associated with another Quantum Leap!

Do whatever it takes.

Don’t fear your failures and focus on your continued application of QLA! Because FEAR is – False Expectations Appearing Real!

There is a massive difference between playing to win and playing not to lose! Which have you followed?

We must all remember life doesn't have to be fair for us to succeed if we take charge and become masters and creators of our own destiny!

The more you investigate, the less you have to invest.

Progress often masquerades as trouble.

Any problem solved will be replaced immediately by a larger more complicated one!

Don't under any circumstances, ever, second guess yourself.

Dream Big, Think Big, Be Big!

When you have high benchmarks and expectations, great things can happen! How high are yours?

Even when one thoughtfully and judiciously plans, more often than not, such plans are overcome by external events. Therefore, never underestimate how wrong you can be!

Deliberately place yourself in risky or uncomfortable situations.

If today was a test – how would you grade yourself, zero to one hundred? Ask yourself this question when you go to bed each and every day. Keep a monthly score. What is your monthly average – including weekends?

You must be laser-beam focused on success and take MASSIVE POSITIVE ACTION!

Act as if you have no limits to your abilities.

I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.

I say to the paparazzi, 'Fellas, take your shot and go.' It's just they usually find me on a beach.

Storm Sister--a friend who sticks close when storms hit her friend's life.

But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they're teams that don't have a lot on the table. They've long since not had any serious investment in their team.

Once you've been on tour six, seven years, you get an idea of what works and what doesn't work universally. There will be some crowds that we just can't play a song, but we've got 90% of a show that we know is going to be a hit with the Lupe Fiasco fan. I think the catering has already been done.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around.

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.

Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving And then taking that experience to help others

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind

I'm just riding the wave until it hits the shore.

I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I'm traveling.

As far as how I expressed 'practice, practice, practice' over and over again, I wouldn't take that back because, obviously, that sound bite is great for the media and for the fans, because they love it.

I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Photographs speak to me, and I obey.

I think that God kind of put me in the place in my life to not be quiet about it, not be quiet about Him, but to reach people and to inspire people.

I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.

When I'm tempted to skip my morning routine or another form of self-care, I remind myself that I can better serve the people I love and the projects I care about when I start with me.

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings they had brass they had vocalist.