When everything seems to be going against you, remember that an airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
– Henry Ford
Tag Archives: Understanding
I’ve missed…
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed
– Michael Jordan
Choice of attention…
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
In a world…
In a world that perpetually seeks answers it’s the ability to ask the right questions that really counts
– Paradigms of Leadership
Too often…
Too often we treat the symptoms and not the disease, if you take away the cause, the effect ceases.
– Miguel de Cervantes
True leaders…
True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up
– Sheri L. Dew
It is…
It is absolutely necessary for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
– George Washington
Don’t judge…
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Just as…
Just as the real basics of human nature do not change from one generation to another, so the real basics of human leadership do not change from one leader to another – from one field to the next – but remain always and everywhere the same.
– William Holler
Sometimes our fate…
resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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