What change are you seeking to make? — Define what the difference between point A and B looks like and then use that difference to determine how successful your work is.

Who’s the work for?

What’s it for?

What is the worldview of the audience you’re seeking to reach?

What are they afraid of?

What story will you tell? Is it true?

How will it change your status?

How will you reach the early adopters/neophiliacs?

Where’s the network effect that will propel this forward?

Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.

Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.

Sometimes I think, 'I need to get married soon.' Other days I think, 'Why get married?'

I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.

There's no denying that candy is comfort food and it's affordable.

Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place.

I always wear SPF 30 sunscreen under my make-up, and I also wear a hat because taking care of my skin is important to me.

Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.

If humanity was still in the feral state, we wouldn't have any need for these huge conurbations that we have now, that have turned us into a different bunch all together. In the feral state we would be much more secure, much more familiar with each other, much more mentally well-balanced.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

I promise: I will be a prime minister to everyone. For right and left, for settlers, Haredim, Druze, Arabs, Circassians. I will be prime minister for the center and for the periphery, for students and senior citizens.

I think for us - the Weinstein name, the Miramax name - they've both become synonymous with brands. We have a real winning formula when it comes to championing a different kind of movie, and I think the audience trusts us.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.

On the cliffs of your wild cat charms Im riding.

I am best viewed from a distance.

The trick to negotiation was to hold all the cards going in and, even if you didn't, to try to look as though you did.