Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.'


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I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons thei...
JEFFREY KLUGER
I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical natur...
JEFFREY JONES
Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making the...
JEFFREY KLUGER
The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destro...
JEFFREY SACHS
Advertisers don't want to be ignored, and they are drunk on our data, which is what Google and o...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN
Great people have great values and great ethics.
JEFFREY GITOMER
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, unders...
JEFFREY SACHS
Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise a...
JEFFREY SACHS
There are times between five and seven when this house is like a bowling alley, but it's reinspi...
JEFFREY TAMBOR
I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some k...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.
JEFFREY GITOMER
At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, ...
JEFFREY GITOMER
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestr...
JEFFREY KLUGER
The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your st...
JEFFREY GITOMER
I think most of my heroes are not the traditional types. A guy I was fascinated with was Buster Keat...
JEFFREY TAMBOR
I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different ...
JEFFREY SKOLL
Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a p...
JEFFREY GITOMER
The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do i...
JEFFREY SACHS
I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
JEFFREY DONOVAN
What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really l...
JEFFREY DONOVAN
I grew up in an upper-middle-class town with a population around 12,000. My high school held around ...
JEFFREY GITOMER
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
JEFFREY TATE
Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping ...
JEFFREY SATINOVER
We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We hav...
JEFFREY SACHS
Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and a...
JEFFREY FRY
Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick.
JEFFREY FRY
My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that ...
JEFFREY KLUGER
The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because bo...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN
My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all ...
JEFFREY GITOMER
Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
If you like a person at their worst, you will love them at their best.
JEFFREY FRY
You know that you're a true friend when somebody says "But what about that wart on the end of his no...
JEFFREY MICHAEL
Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you e...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
LORD JEFFREY
Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
LORD JEFFREY
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning...
JEFFREY ARCHER
It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones rooted in fr...
JEFFREY BELL
Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on r...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Jus...
JEFFREY KOTTLER
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives.
JEFFREY MONTGOMERY
Good design can't fix broken business models.
JEFFREY VEEN