The ultimate measure of a story's success or excellence is not its compliance with any established patterns, but its lasting popu­ larity and effect on the audience.

The heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the leader is a reliable vessel.

The degree to which urgency drives the organization is the degree to which importance does not.

We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.

The Christ who died for you and rose again is the only One who can condemn you. And He does not.

The principle is simply this: We tend to get what we expect—both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less.

For him, one essential symptom of the regenerate life is a permanent and permanently horrified perception of one’s natural and (it seems) unalterable corruption.

We make our best decisions in life when we balance our emotions with rational thinking.

Dysfunction 4: Avoidance of accountability. With high levels of commitment, team members can hold one another accountable and eliminate the possibility of people saying “I never agreed to that in the first place”.

When leaders breathe life into dreams and aspirations, people are much more willing to enlist in a common cause.