Max DePree popularised the idea that leadership is an art. So much of what a leader does cannot be objectively measured. To reduce leadership to a set of algorithms is to remove it from its context; to ignore the complexities, the contradictions, and the possibilities. Artists must deal with uncertainty, contradictions and diversity almost by definition. Leaders need to have this capacity.
– Michael McKinney
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
– Amelia Earhart
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
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and by falling over.
– Richard Branson
All these boundaries – Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America – are set by men. But you don’t have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man – at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
– Hakeem Olajuwon
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
– Seth Godin
We shouldn’t be looking for heroes… we should be looking for good ideas
– Noam Chomsky
Power isn’t control at all; power is strength and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
– Beth Revis
Life’s most persistent question is what are you doing for others?
– Martin Luther King Jr
Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‘leaders’ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
– Maya Angelou
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