…any “yes-men” around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs
– Samuel Goldwyn
Tag Archives: Courage
If you would….
… not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
– Benjamin Franklin
The dogmas of…
…. the quiet past are inadequate for the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew and we must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country
– Abraham Lincoln
The true test….
.. of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do
– Jon Holt
Do more…
…. than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work
– William Arthur Ward
How do you…
… make sure you get the bubbling up of ideas through a coalition of energy, rather the boiling down that consensus inevitably provokes? It’s about eliminating all the ordinary, in-between stuff that is no good. You have to cut it out and concentrate all the energy on stretching for the best. Then the really good stuff acts as a magnet for more. If you allow middling stuff to stay – the filler stuff – then that works as a magnet for more of the same too
– Siobhan Davies
I never…
…. saw a pessimistic general win a battle
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must learn…..
….individually and as organisations, to welcome change and innovation as vigorously as we have fought it in the past. The corporate capacity to change must be dramatically increased
– Tom Peters
To be…
able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone
– Harry Truman
If you limit…
… your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise
– Robert Fritz
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