When I WRITE a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't CARE what HAPPENS - I'm going to stay on this PATH. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my BEST shot, my best effort.'
I'm ATTRACTED to IMAGES that COME from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal STAMP to them, then I think it BECOMES identifiable.
The more tranquil a man BECOMES, the GREATER is his success, his INFLUENCE, his power for GOOD. Calmness of mind is one of the BEAUTIFUL jewels of wisdom.
PEOPLE have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an INSTANT, and then everything becomes the PAST. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.
It's interesting how songs can evolve. SOMETIMES I'll write a song that FEELS relevant in the MOMENT, but four years later, I don't want to sing it ANYMORE. Then something will happen in my life, and the song BECOMES relevant again.
If you TAKE a galaxy and TRY to make it bigger, it BECOMES a cluster of galaxies, not a galaxy. If you try to make it smaller than that, it seems to BLOW itself apart.
Building a HOUSE is like producing a MOVIE. There's no RIGHT way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and CREATIVE. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly BECOMES costly.
I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a BUNCH of slogans. It's a bunch of POORATTEMPTS at creating pride. My problem with nationalism is that it becomes exclusionary. We START to exclude PEOPLE.
The best leaders understand the MOTIVATIONS of their TEAM members and know their people - their lives and their families. But a LEADER must never GROW so CLOSE to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.