The first act of leadership is coming to grips with yourself, who you are, where you are, and what is of value to you, and shaping yourself by acts of conscious will into what you want to become.
– Fenwick English
Category Archives: Change
Difficulties….
Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.
– Nelson Mandela
Make yourself…
Make yourself a better person before trying to make others better
– Yao Chen
Cultural leaders…
Cultural leaders are responding to a climate of fear and exclusion with visions of inclusiveness and balance
– Hilde Schwab
Dissatisfaction…
Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence of things but the absence of vision.
– Anon
It is only when…
It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of opening, a sense of vision…That is the sort of time we live in now. We…live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our uncertain feet.
– Barbara Ward
A human being…
A human being is a part of the whole called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to enhance all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
– Albert Einstein
Any intelligent man…
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
– E.F. Schumacher
If you…
If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
– Vincent Van Gogh
All organisations…
All organisations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting.
If we want different results, we must change the way we do things.
– Tom Northup
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