Quotes about "Leadership & Influence"

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on. ”

Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies. ”

We have always policed the bodies of people of color, and black people in particular. The Jim Crow South is a classic example. White flight in the North. School segregation. Gerrymandering. ”

The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality. ”

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer. ”

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction. ”

New technologies, innovative management, higher productivity, displacements in the labour market, increased migration - these are all provoking major economic, social, and political shifts. These shifts need to be better understood if we are to address them in a positive and effective manner. ”

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. ”

We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised. ”

We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.' ”