Inspiration

A growing collection of quotable quotes from notable individuals who have learned how to fuel success…

“The new mind-set says work is personal.  That what I’m doing is not just making a living – I’m making a difference.  The mind-set says I’m having more fun at work that I ever imagined would be possible…The mind-set says there are values in work that are really quite important.  That what I do, how I do it and the people with whom I do it stand for something.  The old model was leave yourself at home.  If you have any emotions, any creativity, if you have any personal investment, check that at the door.  Just give us your hands.  We’re not hiring you for your brain and your spirit, or your heart…For us that is really old news, and it no longer works.”–Alan Webber, Fast Company Editor and Co-Founder

“ The best way to predict the future is to create it.”–Peter Drucker, management expert and author

“The highest art form is really business.  It is an extremely creative form, and can be more creative than all the things we classically think of as creative.  In business, the tools with which you are working are dynamic: capital and people and markets and ideas.  These tools all have lives of their own.  So to take those things and work with them and reorganize them in new and different ways turns out to be a very creative process.”–Wayne Van Dyck, Founder of Windfarms, Ltd.

“The essence of the discipline of shared vision…lies in bringing individual vision into harmony with a larger vision.  If the organization’s vision is imposed on local units, it will, at best, result in compliance… if there is an ongoing “visioning” process, local visions and organization visions will continually interact with and enrich one another.  The combination of mission, vision and values creates the common identity that connects thousands of people within large organizations.”–Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline

“No school can teach you how to do business in today’s world.  Instead, companies have to rely on their own internal-learning practices to succeed.  Everyone is capable of reinventing themselves and their businesses.  And the one thing that people really want to be assured of is that it’s alright to spend time thinking crazy thoughts – and that those thoughts will be taken seriously by their companies.  Create this environment, and watch where imagination can lead you… Basically, if you give people the space and the support to learn and to change, they will.”–Eric Hippeau, Chairman and CEO, Ziff-Davis Inc, Fast Company, “The Art of Smart”

“Things do not change; we change.”–Henry David Thoreau, author

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action.  And because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.  And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.  The world will not have it.  It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions.  It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly, to keep the channel open…whether you choose to take an art class, keep a journal, record your dreams, dance your story or live each day from your own creative source.”–Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer

“Life is a journey of discovery, of becoming what we are uniquely  meant to be.  We live into that potential through the Creative Process.  You are the StarPilot- the One with the power to choose your own direction, in the Journey that is your life.”–Julie Ann Turner, author of The Creators Guide