習慣之鏈的力量很弱，因而往往感覺不到，但一當感覺到了，它已是牢不可摧的了。

對於一個藝術家來說，如果能夠打破常規，完全自由進行創作，其成績往往會是驚人的。

創新是企業的靈魂，是企業持續發展的保證！

創新就是在生活中發現了古人沒有發現的東西。

商品開發離不開創新構想，創新構想是人類智慧中最美麗的花朵。

以人為本的管理就是管理人員的創新精神。

把每位員工經營成創新的SBU並不斷經營出高素質的人才的決定性因素就是管理者能否經營自我。

對於創新來說，方法就是新的世界，最重要的不是知識，而是思路。

能正確地提出問題就是邁出了創新的第一步。

在領悟上不肯鑽研的人是不會提出問題的；在事業上缺乏突破力的人是不會有所創新的。

敏于觀察，勤於思考，善於綜合，勇於創新。

或者創新，或者消亡。尤其是在技術推動型產業，再也沒有比成功消失得更快的了。

沒有創新，就不可能有合理的，尤其是有效的管理。

科學技術史證明，過多的知識資訊有時反倒會妨礙和限制創新。

正確對待前人理論，學百家之長，自主創新。

人喜歡習慣，因為造它的就是自己。

習慣是一種頑強而巨大的力量，它可以主宰人生。

習慣成自然是個魔術師。它對美麗的東西是殘酷的，但是對醜陋的東西卻是仁慈的。

習慣仿佛一根纜繩，我們每天給它纏上一股新索，要不了多久，它就會變得牢不可破。

根深蒂固的惡習決非一朝一夕就能養成的。

是否真有幸福並非取決於天性，而是取決於人的習慣。

許多富有創見的人並沒有想到這一點，他們被習慣思維引入歧途。

習慣不加以抑制，不久它就會變成你生活上的必需品了。

習慣實際上已成為天性的一部分。

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama. I think that ultimately, the less winking that's going on when you're doing comedy - and this is just my own thing, and maybe it's why I've never been hired in comedy except by Bill Lawrence - but I think that the less winking you do with comedy, the better off you are.

To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them of it after they have created it. And this is done by all laws against honest banking.

You go through pain. You feel uncomfortable, uncomfortable, uncomfortable until you change. I acquired a different outlook.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

The first time I met Beyonce she was about 18 years old, sitting in a makeup chair eating fried chicken, and I knew it was only a matter of time before everyone would know her name.

We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.

It seems to me that most things that are being made are designed for young people. There aren't that many depictions of melancholic older people, even though they form a growing proportion of the population.

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

I tend to sort of over-accessorize, but to feel empowered, I strip it all down and become minimal so that it's almost counterintuitive.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.

It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.

For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.

Your genome isn't really secret.

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.

I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I've gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends... one time an angora sweater leaped right off my body.