I never use notes, they interfere with me.

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.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts.

Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting.

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

The biggest trap that all performers and writers find is that when something really crazy, really bad happens, your mind immediately goes to, 'Can I write about this?' - which is good and bad.

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.

When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that.

I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that... I've always done 'less is more.'

In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.

You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.

I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.

You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.

I'm a huge Michael J. Fox fan.

It's not so much knowing when to speak...but when to pause.

I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people. One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a 'whisper' is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife's ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret.

It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how 'down' I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable.

I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.

Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself?

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.

Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser.