"The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas."

“Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of Christ.”

Source : Twitter post from May 08, 2012

“I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'”

“The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.”

“The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture to a gross money-getting concern: these particular aspects of a vast and voracious concentration upon profits are so many illustrations of our sinning confusion of values.”

“I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.”

“The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself in it, he sees his own human reality in it he discovers and reveals to others the objective reality of his humanity of the originally abstract and purely subjective idea he has of himself”

Source : Alexandre Kojève (1980). “Introduction to the Reading of Hegel”, p.27, Cornell University Press

“Climbing is so fun and such a good experience, that I think it's important not to take it too seriously. It's not the end of the world - or the entire world either.”

“To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you forever,”

Source : Chris Botti (2008). “Best of Chris Botti Songbook: Trumpet Artist Transcriptions”, p.4, Hal Leonard