"The message people are sending is this: focus on what matters, deliver what you promise – and prove yourself in the process.
This is as good, I think, as art ever gets: mystery and matter delivered in a rush of poetic illumination.
She released her first album in 1979, and caused an immediate sensation with her womanly subject matter delivered in a distinctive little-girl voice and original compositions that took singer-songwriter pop in a cool, jazzy direction.
Detections of these organic molecules would strengthen the thesis that interstellar organic matter, delivered in cometary impacts, could have played an important role in the prebiotic chemistry of the early Earth.
Therefore, there is considerable hope that in subsurface soil samples on Mars, at least organic matter delivered by meteorites may be detected, and possibly also relics of earlier simple microbial life on the planet.
Even Rock's final line, a quick "Black Lives Matter" delivered with a half-grin and a box of Thin Mints in his hand, came off at worst as a joke, and at best as an afterthought.
(A pregnant character, or cow for that matter, delivers after the requisite nine months).
Or, for that matter, deliver your sweetheart safely into the hands of her parents while you bear the consequences.
So was the speech about budgetary matters he delivered in April of this year, when he defended programs like Social Security and Medicare as part of a social contract, blasting the radical conservative proposals of Representative Paul Ryan.
What makes that hard for executives is that they've spent the last 30 years having it beaten into them that the only thing that matters is delivering "shareholder value".
