Quotes of: Steve Keyword

Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.

Leading from the Gut: 3 Power Principles of Effective Leaders

I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all.

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets

A writer who’s a pro can take on almost any assignment, but if he or she doesn’t much care about the subject, I try to dissuade the writer, as in that case the book can be just plain hard labor.

Lord of Publishing: A Memoir

The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.

The Last Song

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they are the majority. ... We have here a problem that is not easy of solution, but yet must engage the at...

Science and Method

...en av de mänskliga rättigheterna måste vara den att för en tid få dra sig undan allt som händer och sitta så här vid sidan av skeendet, få vända världen ryggen ett ögonblick medan solen lyser och hjärtat fortsätter att dunka.

Stad i världen

Make a wish with all your heart and chase every dream you have. Only you can reach your goals. No one else can achieve them for you

Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin

If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.

Through My Eyes: A Quarterback's Journey: Young Reader's Edition

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

Poke the Box

One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don’t show (because it’s difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice.

Poke the Box

I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.

Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life

We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life

The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.

Revolution 2:0: A Memoir and Call to Action

I will murder you by the billions to give you immortality. I will set fire to your civilization to light your way forward. But know this: My species is not defined by your dying, but by your living.

Robopocalypse

I look at the others, simpering courtiers and visiting dignitaries, all unsuspecting of what is to come. A merciful man should spare them, but I had mercy cut out of me at a young age.

Ruined City

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

In a battle between  two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Steve, on the other hand, has plenty of friends, but he wouldn't bleed for any of them, because he wouldn't trust them to bleed for him. In that way he's just as alone as me.

Underdogs

How to run an ultramarathon ? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till you cross the finish line.

Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner