Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

He isnt a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities

Customer service is not a department its everyones job.

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance dignity and meaning in their job.

Dont quack like a duck soar like an eagle.

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. Its not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.

All good performance starts with clear goals.

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

I just freestyle. I don't actually write the words on paper. It's just whatever comes into my mind. I'll record three or four lines at a time, get a good take, and do three or four more. It may be whatever comes into my mind. But I care about my craft a lot more than a lot of other people.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things. It's not to transform the culture by trying out some ideas that some people think would make us a different country and more diverse. The purpose is to protect America.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

Like the cotton carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light.

I can say that we are very clear in our mind about the responsibility of the national soldiers for the break with civilisation that was the Shoah. We are firmly convinced that this is something that will have to be handed over to generations to come... so we don't see any reason to change our view of history.

The success of the film should depend on its budget.

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

It's very hard for me to relax.

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

I love watching old sitcoms. It's very inspiring to watch 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Golden Girls.' I have watched them over and over again for years.

I throw 14 parties a week.

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.

Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

That is the most liberating thing to feel as an actor: that you don't have to hold back or be afraid. A bit might not work, but it doesn't matter.

I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.

Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range of safe, affordable financial services - most importantly, savings accounts - that have long been out of reach.