I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any ….

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterr….

Be bold. You gotta be bold..

For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health..

Everyone has a right to rest so as not to injure themselves..

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. “Focus on your potential instead of your limitations..

In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary" things. In screenwriting, I don't h….

I'm always geeking out about something..

A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you ….

My drive is something that I don't fully understand..

Focus on the process of what it takes to be successful..

In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on..

Nothing is true unless it works. And it has to work for you, not for someone else..

Upward, not Northward.

By 40, all women are amazing..

An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself..

Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every id….

I lived and languished..

One of the most consistent findings about low performing schools and students is that "home variables" (parental income and education, etc.) are more….

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how….

Words will be just words till you bring them to life.