We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

In oratory the will must predominate.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

Nobody’s indispensable.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Tell the children the truth.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

To be social is to be forgiving.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

Language is the dress of thought.

Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

I’m modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.