Tag Archives: Understanding

You can have…

anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it

–Robert Anthony

What makes a…

good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination

~ Warren G. Bennis

Whatever you…

do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it

– Mahatma Gandhi

You can never…

cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

– Christopher Columbus

Education makes…

… a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

– Henry Peter Brougham,

The Present State of Law, 1828

Don’t waste your…

energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it

– Tina Fey

We may…

..encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated

– Maya Angelou


When you look…

… at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about

– Albert Einstein

Twenty years from….

now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover

– Mark Twain

Let him who…

… would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.

– Thomas Carlyle