Occupation: American Author Birth: May 14, 1959
People want to feel united, they want to have that religious sense they want to feel like at a rave 10,000 people at the rave are feeling the same em….
Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself..
The pyramid would start at the bottom: you don't know who you are or what you're intended to do in life. And so, the X factor - the ingredient that w….
If you're consumed only with the big dream, you're going to die because you won't be able to feed yourself or you're going to be losing your job, so ….
The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific..
Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers. Because of these judgments, we might see our strengths as d….
If you are armed with knowledge, if you are aware that certain dynamics are at play then you have options. You can play defense, you can ignore certa….
We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But b….
There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with ….
As most people when I entered the work world, suddenly people are playing games, being manipulative, being a little bit nasty, you get tricked or you….
Nobody that I know really likes the feeling of having no power and not being able to influence people. But most of us aren't too conscious of what we….
You're always feeling powerless in life. If you're in an abusive relationship or working for what we call a psychotic boss sometimes the only option ….
A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can't stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they're constantly lurking, lo….
What I like about the internet, what I see there is that its much more democratic. I have much more control, and if what I write is liked by the publ….
The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we….
If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode. You can just as easily see a crises or problem as a challenge….
Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive….
I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of the most interesting disciplines..
I don't know that Brandy [Burre] would ever categorize herself as being trapped, but I felt like I saw her being trapped. When she's cleaning the roo….
Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love literature and after graduating college, I kind of wan….
People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never….