Comedians walk out get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing we will. Whatever we got to do.

With the never-ending stream of new social technologies apps and platforms rolling out every day its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change especially within large top-down hierarchical institutions a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play.

The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.

The new dynamics between brands and consumers driven by social media are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

Once I accepted Christ I immediately had peace. I still didn't have a place to live I still didn't have a car but I had peace.