Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability as well as determination not to accept failure.
– Admiral Arleigh A. Burke
Choice of attention—to pay attention to this and ignore that—is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.
–W.H. Auden
Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.
– Alan Cohen
…people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you
– Don Marquis
… you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
– Benjamin Disraeli
…. of many leaders is to get people to think more highly of the leader. The goal of a great leader is to help people to think more highly of themselves.
– J. Carla Nortcutt
… like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it
– Henry Mintzberg
…. to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead
– William Hazlitt
…. that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves
– Carl Jung
… not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint
– Lewis H. Lapham
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