When I’m cooking or doing other physical work and I get overwhelmed, it’s usually because I’m not taking care of myself, so I’ll take a break. I’ll make a snack or a cup of tea. Or I’ll just drink a g...
What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that have greatly influenced your life? At some point about halfway through my 20-year career in the SE...
What is the 20% of my belongings that I use 80% of the time? Eliminate the other 80% in clothing, magazines, books, and all else. Be ruthless - you can always repurchase things you can't live without.
What gets measured gets managed. —PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author
What do you want? is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.
What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise? The biggest one is that international audiences won’t see films about people of color. It’s particularly insidious, but i...
What I prefer over trends is a sense of mission. That you are working on a unique problem that people are not solving elsewhere.
We were trying to catch a flight to Puerto Rico, but the local Puerto Rican scheduled flight was canceled. The airport terminal was full of stranded passengers. I made a few calls to charter companies...
We want to pick big. Infinity is our friend. Infinity is safe. Infinity gives us a place to hide. So, I want to encourage people instead to look for the small. To be on one medium in a place where peo...
We agreed I was going to make judgment calls on a range of issues on his behalf without checking with him. He told me, ‘In order to move fast, I expect you’ll make some foot faults. I’m okay with an e...
Wasn’t it Bill Clinton who said that when dealing with anyone who’s upset, he always asks, ‘Has this person slept? Have they eaten? Is somebody else bugging them?’ He goes through this simple checklis...
Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan.
Truth is, young creative minds don’t need more ideas, they need to take more responsibility with the ideas they’ve already got.
This book is for anyone who is sick of the deferred-life plan and wants to live life large instead of postpone it.
There is a way to get the rewards for a life of hard work without waiting until the end.
There are no statues erected to critics.
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The struggle ends when the gratitude begins. [Quote attributed to Neale Donald Walsch
The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.
The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.