If your treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tag Archives: development
Once….
Once you recognise, or admit, that your primary goal is to fully express yourself, you will find the means to achieve the rest of your goals.
– Warren G Bennis
Focus your life…
Focus your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little life of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realise your true potential.
– Barack Obama
Widespread…
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should, therefore, be a talent for understanding, encouraging and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
– Carl Sagan
Make yourself…
Make yourself a better person before trying to make others better
– Yao Chen
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
Excellence is….
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. – Warren G. Bennis
Solve someone’s…
Solve someone’s problems and you produce a follower. Teach someone to solve their own problems and you produce a leader.
– Alexander Den Heijer
Life is…
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
– Charles M. Shulz
How do you…
How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.
– Sir John Harvey-Jones
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