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The Road Not Taken…

The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost, 1874 – 1963

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Invite…

Invite people into your life that don’t look or think like you

– Mellody Hobson

Adversity…

Adversity introduces a man to himself

– Albert Einstein

We can teach…

 

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they are. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they can be.

– Max DePree

No leader…

No leader sets out to be a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely – all your skills, gifts and energies – in order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You, must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and to enjoy the process of becoming.

– Warren G Bennis

If you…

If you think that you are too small to make a difference try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito

– African proverb

Make yourself…

Make yourself a better person before trying to make others better

– Yao Chen

Go…

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.

– J. P. Morgan

Leaders….

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they’ve never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

– Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Self-actualisation…

Self-actualisation takes motivation, determination and discipline. Like everyone else, leaders must develop their brains over time and live with greater consciousness and awareness to become the leader they were meant to be.

– Anne Dranitsaris and Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard