If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led. — George Takei Copy Share Image
Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition. — Arturo Sandoval Copy Share Image
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
I had been asked to open a nightclub in Atlantic City. They offered me a ridiculous amount of money. They literally overpaid… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
“There are so many options, so much to so, so many demands on women. There is no point in taking one hour… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness,… — Arthur Cecil Pigou Copy Share Image
Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
The unwillingness of most leaders to set standards, to administer feedback when standards are not met, to praise clearly when standards are… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
The reality is that we do not have an air traffic control system that is smart enough and technologically capable enough to… — James May Copy Share Image
If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I am truly honest, I have to acknowledge that the demands I am so convinced are coming from the outer world… — Joan Anderson Copy Share Image
