Quotes about "Leadership & Influence"

Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as many answers as the people they seek to depict. ”

Athletes can not look the same and be great in their individual sport. The example I like to use is Gabby Douglas. She could not flip in the air if she was built like me, but then Gabby Douglas couldn't throw the shot put. I was built like this because I was made to throw the shot put. ”

By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls. ”

I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation. ”

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head. ”

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. ”

The wardrobe department isn't a bunch of elves there to serve you; they're artists with vision. Honor them. ”

The fantastic thing about the memorial to the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel is that it's one of the rare examples where they've preserved a battlefield more or less as it was. You can see all the trenches, where the British were, where the Germans lined up. ”

In terms of worship, I think we ought to have the right people leading. ”

I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship. ”