We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.
The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.
If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.