Steve Schwartz

“Accountability: “A personal choice to rise above one’s circumstances and demonstrate the ownership necessary for achieving desired results—to See It, Own It, Solve It, and Do It.”
― Roger Connors, The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability

“Good and evil, which were once as distinguishable as day and night, have become a blurred mist. But that mist is man-made. God is not silent. He has been silenced.”
― Julian E. Zelizer, Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement

“There’s no skill in birth and death. At the beginning and at the end, luck reigns unchallenged. Here’s the truth: most of the world is noise, and we spend most of our lives trying to make sense of it. We are, in the end, nothing more than interpreters of static.”
― Maria Konnikova, The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.”
― James Geary, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists