Das erinnert uns daran, das wir das Gute nie für uns selbst haben und sein können. ( S. 64 )

Die meisten Führungskräfte werden sich in ihrem ganzen Leben nicht bewusst, das Sie nur eine Person zu führen haben, nämlich sich selbst.

Meine Verantwortung bezieht sich also immer auf die mir gegebenen Möglichkeiten und Handlungsspielräume.

Eine Führungskraft sein bedeutet, in 70 Prozent der Zeit auf Situationen reagieren zu müssen, die man sich nicht ausgesucht hat.

Denn was die andere Person falsch gemacht hat, ist offensichtlich. Das Versagenspotential ihrer „Helfer“ aber versteckt sich hinter einer Fassade scheinbarer Frömmigkeit und Selbstsicherheit. (Seite 46)

Das Wort Nachfolge verdeutlicht das: unser Tun folgt immer dem nach, was Gott zuvor für uns getan hat und tut! ( Seite 61 )

Zu wissen, was ich dort beitragen kann, und es dann von Herzen zu tun, ist deshalb ein wesentlicher Aspekt der Selbstführung. ( S. 64 )

I have no doubt that President George W. Bush - a man, in my experience, of extremely kind and generous instincts, and back in Austin even a rescuer of stray animals - would be appalled by the conditions of a typical American factory farm or packing plant.

Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.

I studied piano for seven years and play for my own enjoyment.

The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.

I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.

We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Don’t waste your energy on negative thinking and focus more on what makes you happy.

Everything you try to do in life, of any value, people are going to be saying, 'No, no, no.' You have to have the ability to not see that or hear that.

Bass guitar is the engine of the band.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.

It's such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.

The tones of gray pale turquoise and pink will prevail.

All our prayers cant keep a single leaf from falling.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

And since time sets its own tempo like a heartbeat or an ebb tide timepieces dont really keep time. They just keep up with it if theyre able.

So I'm all of love that could make it today.

Laura Bush, it seems, is used to cast a softer light on her husband, who then proceeds to reverse whatever she's just promised.

It's not okay to be fat - not because of the way you look, but because it's unhealthy. I have experienced hormonal problems, bad skin, immense laziness, and back and knee pain. It's not fine to be too fat or too thin! Anything in extremes is wrong. I am afraid of putting on weight because I don't want to develop health problems.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

I don't know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldn't make it to the play. I didn't think anything of it.