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

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.

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 )

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.

One thing an exceptional employee never says is, 'That's not in my job description.' Exceptional employees work outside the boundaries of job descriptions.

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.

May the Lord strengthen you for every great work.

At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rarely seen outside but was reading two to four books per week, the subjects ranging from archaeology over ethnology and geography to zoology. Needless to say that I did not do much homework.

If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.

Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.

Fare thee well and if for ever still for ever fare thee well.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned - take our post-traumatic growth - and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destinies. They come, they go, but they are never forgotten. They come, they go, but even after they go they're still here. They never really went anywhere.

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.

'Sugar Cane Alley' had a lot of international success, big success everywhere.

I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.

One day I am at home, watching dramatic images of Iraqi Yazidis fleeing for their lives being aired nonstop on 24-hour news channels. Days later, I am there, staring at tens of thousands of displaced Iraqis and feeling a 35-millimeter frame cannot capture the scope of devastation and heartbreak before me.

My sister and I created a show called 'The Real Life Brady Bunch,' which was sort of a theatrical sensation that got us attention in L.A. and New York.