how the ability to make connections across disciplines—arts and sciences, humanities and technology—is a key to innovation, imagination, and genius.


“If only we had the power to see ourselves in the same way that others see us.’ Of all the mantras one might adopt in life, this is surely one of the better ones and for anyone in a leadership role it should be an essential part of the checks and balances that are built into a company’s standard operating procedures.”
― The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership
― The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership

“A man who has not better government of his tongue, no more command of his temper, is unfit for everything but children’s play and the company of boys.”
― John Adams
― John Adams

“We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.”
― John Adams
― John Adams

“Pen, ink, and paper and a sitting posture are great helps to attention and thinking.”
― John Adams
― John Adams

“Your father’s zeal for books will be one of the last desires which will quit him,” Abigail observed to John Quincy”
― John Adams
― John Adams
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