Quotes about "Leadership & Influence"

We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York, for example: they'd give Negroes little five-cent jobs here and there - and they thought they had something. And the same in Chicago and any of the metropolitan areas. ”

History is Philosophy teaching by example. ”

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. ”

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. ”

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs. ”

The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model. ”

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. ”

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. ”

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. ”

Judges are real people with real-world experiences and backgrounds. We cannot expect them to erase their experiences and backgrounds from the mindset that informs their judicial decision-making. ”