"I am most comfortable in a "learner" role, I may raise my values-related concerns by asking the well-crafted and well-timed question, rather than by strenuously arguing a particular point of view. Or if I am a risk-taking, aggressive manager, I may frame the values conflict as just one more challenge that I want to take on, as opposed to a "constraint" on my action choices."

“I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!”

“If you remix, people want to tap into your sound. If you keep that to yourself, it makes the sound more special.”

Source : Interview with Sterling McGarvey, www.ign.com. August 10, 2006.

“Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

“These days I love to take in the sunset because every time I do so I remember how lucky I am to be alive. That's a great relationship to have with the setting sun.”

Source : Lincoln Hall (2008). “Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest”, p.240, Penguin

“I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.”

“Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?”

“Co-opted convictions will always betray you.”

“I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.”

Source : John Masefield, Donald Elwin Stanford (1984). “Selected poems”, Carcanet Press