Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6 2001 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9 his first prime-time address to the nation.

But once you are in that field emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.