A true leader has the
confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the
compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a
leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his
intent.
Douglas MacArthur
The leader has to be
practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the
idealist.
Eric Hoffer
[With a lot of dark clouds
of ambiguity; then, The VOA-ERD Institution, in the bounds of one structural
solution of deep] - All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in
common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of
their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of
leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith
If there is such a thing as
good leadership, it is to give a good example.
Ingvar Kamprad
Sometimes when you innovate,
you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving
your other innovations.
Steve Jobs
The desire of knowledge,
like the thirst [desire] for riches [treasures], increases ever with the
acquisition of it.
Laurence Sterne
The first responsibility of
a leader is to define reality.
Max DePree
The first duty
[responsibility] of a leader is optimism. How does your subordinate feel after
meeting with you? Does he feel uplifted [improved]? If not, you are not a
leader.
Field Marshall Montgomery
To decide to be at the level
of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your
life.
Arbie M. Dale
What a school thinks about
its library is a measure of what it thinks about education.
Harold Howe
Education is not the filling
of a pail [container], but the lighting of a fire.
W. B. Yeats
The Chinese use two brush
[argument] strokes [impacts] to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke
stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the
danger–but recognize the opportunity
JF Kennedy
To produce a mighty
[powerful] book, you must choose a mighty theme.
Herman Melville
A blank piece of paper is
God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.
Sidney Sheldon
First, find out [discover] what
your hero wants, then just follow him!
Ray Bradbury
The first law of success is concentration,
to bend [change direction] all the energies to [towards] one point, and to go
directly to that point, looking neither to the right, nor to the left.
William Matthews
Always think of what you
have to do as easy and it will be.
Émile Coué
Great things are not done by
impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
God has given each of us our
"marching orders [displaying directives]." Our purpose here on Earth
is to find those orders and carry them out [perform them]. Those orders
acknowledge [recognize] our special gifts.
Soren Kierkegaard.
When a goal matters enough
to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed
impossible.
Nido Qubein.
A teacher affects eternity;
he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
If you want to be a writer,
you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot
Stephen King
One must be an inventor to
read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I do believe is that
there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant
interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Look to the LORD and his
strength; seek his face always.
1 Chronicles 16:11
The eyes of the LORD are in
every place, beholding [observing] the evil and the good.
Proverbs 15:3
Because of his great love
for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were
dead in our transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved.
Ephesians 2:4-5
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