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 )

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

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

When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others.

He had the same look on his face that I had every day when I looked in the mirror. He was nothing more than a shell of a person.

Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.

A ship is always safe at shore but that is not what it's built for.

Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like theyre hallucinating

When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I might have not discovered on my own.

Execution is everything.

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

I'm not an ace at small talk.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept his lot calmly even if they roll a few stones upon it.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

The first half of my TV career, I didn't do any genre at all.

I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days; I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took from punk. Keep going. Don't look back.

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.

I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily.

We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.

You always get one or two people that aren't going to be saying nice things. It doesn't really bother me, but you're always going to get a few people like that.

When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.

I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family and friends.