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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
It is hard to feel bad about yourself when you are doing something good for someone else. There are a lot of ways to lift your self-esteem, but making a positive difference in another's life has got to be my best leadership guidance. Serving others and working to add value to them will lift your spirits in a way that nothing else will. Trust me on this one.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.
If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.
One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.
Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.
Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.
Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. Service and patience are what can keep things running effectively today and women can contribute a lot in both of these areas.
The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.
Pakistan's political leadership needs to make a clear choice to fight the Taliban decisively, not with half measures, the burden is on Prime Minister Sharif to show he can unite the country to defend its children.
The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or the office he has held, but only the quality of his deeds and the character of his mind and heart.
If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in word his fellow men will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results.
You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.
One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.
Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.
The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.
Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.
In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!
Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.
We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.
Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.
When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.
Leaders fix things that are broken.
"How" is what kills vision and dreams. Don't ask "How" until we figure out the "What". The "How" can kill the "What".
We want time in with our kids not time out.
The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.
People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.
Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.
Fortune favours the bold.
We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.
If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either.
Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.
Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.
Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.
There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.
All you can do is all you can do... If all you can do, is still not good enough, then go do something else.
Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.
The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
The sky cannot have two suns.
China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.
He is a leader among leaders.
If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.
As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.
You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.
The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.
The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.
Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.
People quit people before they quit companies.
The truth is that problems won't just go away.
So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.
The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.
Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would come out here and sit in this chair and say some things that were unbelievable - where you would have to swallow pretty hard... but it was hilarious... the force of her comedy was overpowering.
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural. Economic determinism is an objectionable creed where men and women espouse it in its communist or capitalist form because it treats human beings as economic units and not as responsible persons.
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.
A few mistakes don't worry me; what worries me is when you make the mistakes and then forget your role on the team and start to worry about your ego.
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.
At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.
Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's a bit like gut instinct, but a little more developed.
The sharp employ the sharp.
I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.
Every country needs its heroes, and we must follow them.
There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.
We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.
The unknown is the governing principle of war.
None of us really pushes hard enough. People always talk about playing over your head when you are up against someone really good. Maybe you don't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.
Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.
I've grown up in a generation that questions God for setting boundaries. Does He have the right to set boundaries? I've grown up in a generation that thinks where meeting with a God is an ordinary thing.
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
