Quotes about "Leadership & Influence"

Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority. ”

Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence. There's an intense, dirty harmony, but there's a Louis XIV kind of elan and style, too. He had the melancholy DNA of our national folk heritage. ”

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees. ”

When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal. ”

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss. ”

There is a woman named Wendy Wood, who did a study when she was at Duke, and she followed around college students to try to figure out how much of their day was decision-making versus how much was habit. And what she found was that about 45 percent of all the behaviors that someone did in a day was habit. ”

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. ”

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. ”

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge. ”

Power is always a corrupting influence. ”