"The thing that matters is meaning! It drives everything. Builders align their attention to the things that matter to them, and they know a lot about that stuff."

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Source : Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson (2006). “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters”, p.201, Pearson Education

Jerry I. Porras

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“The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”
“ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.”
“In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.”
“I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.”
“I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all.”
“When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me. This is a chance to strip the songs down to their roots and let the audience hear them the way I write them.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.”
“We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have.”

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