All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith

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Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should b

Author: Jodi Picoult
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Are you always so mistrusting?” he said, lifting a brow.“When my escort is a demon, yes.

Author: Lia Davis
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Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

Author: Walter Benjamin
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I know that women want to be treated equally - and they should be treated equally - but the truth is

Author: Josh Hatcher
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But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Author: Mark Twain
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If you meet the darkest moment of life, strive valiantly through it with courage and never retreat,

Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots ad executions. We kill every time we close our eyes t

Author: Eberhard Arnold
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He looks at me and then, reverting to the voice he'd used with Kendra, says, 'If homegirls wanna see

Author: Gayle Forman
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The process of recovering from addictiveness happens at a deeper level of consciousness and through

Author: Christopher Dines
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Liberty is a great celestial goddess. strong, benevolent and austere. Hello august August.

Author: Sravani Saha Nakhro
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Then again, I was never any good at plumbing the depths of a woman's heart.

Author: David Pilling
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How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he ke

Author: Andrew Murray
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life

Author: Unknown
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True love is a mirage… it does exist. We do get enamored and infatuated by it but we have to keep fo

Author: Balroop Singh
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If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense

Author: Soren Kierkegaard
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Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Author: Spike Milligan
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Honesty is a big ticket item seemingly just out of the reach of the frivolous!

Author: Mary-Ellen Peters
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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends,

Author: Brian Jacques
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Jensen looked concerned."I'm reluctant to delay, but would a later appointment be better?" He glance

Author: Katherine Bayless
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The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happ

Author: M. Scott Peck
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Turning images from within our minds into reality is a gift we are all born with.

Author: Stephen Richards
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Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt o

Author: Steve Backley
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I have an American son and an American partner, so marriage might logistically make sense at one poi

Author: Evangeline Lilly
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People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots alrea

Author: Dave Eggers
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The epiphany machine will not discover anything about you that you do not, in some way, already know

Author: David Burr Gerrard
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Our search for safety and contentment is endless and inexhaustible precisely because of the intrinsi

Author: Dallas Willard
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Draw outside the lines! Make the sky purple instead of blue! That's what it looks like to dreamers!

Author: Viola Shipman
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I’m of the camp that if an angel tells you one thing, and a man in ruby slippers tells you another,

Author: Sean Patrick Brennan
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Author: Pablo Casals
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I am not ashamed that I was once a vacuum-cleaner salesman, only that I was a *good* vacuum-cleaner

Author: Robert Morley
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...you listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you c

Author: John Geddes
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I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It's the same thing that happens when I turn off

Author: Gayle Forman
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Don't stand back with your arms folded step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice a

Author: Adolfo Perez Esquivel
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How can you have a war on terrorism while war itself is terrorism!

Author: Howard Zinn
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And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Author: Anonymous
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We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
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Like the zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.''No, stupid,' Leo said, 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.

Author: Rick Riordan
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In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown

Author: Tom Brokaw
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There was a silence. Elliot was surprised, because he would have thought the sound of every atom in

Author: Sarah Rees Brennan
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I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkin

Author: Lynelle Clark Engelbrecht
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Never be afraid to love. Just be careful who you love.

Author: Carlos Wallace
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Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women

Author: Virginia Woolf
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May all humankind find grace.

Author: Unknown
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All providences are doors to trial. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of

Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Author: Samuel Johnson
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children,

Author: Richard Dawkins
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Beauty is not about make up it’s about what it makes you to be from within.

Author: Amit Abraham
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As I came closer, it took shape: long, slender, and curling, with numerous heart-shaped leaves. I fe

Author: Colleen Boyd
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his li

Author: Ayn Rand
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No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?No. It's never like what you expected.Qui

Author: Cormac McCarthy
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People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline..

Author: Jennifer E. Smith
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The inner light actually comes from the soul; it is already inside us. The moment we can have free a

Author: Sri Chinmoy
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I want to support these people. The west has always been fairly colorblind, too.""Oh?" Mek prompted

Author: Paul Carlson
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Unto us Saviour is born at Christmas.The love and light of the World.

Author: Unknown
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Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader you have to listen to the people

Author: Richard Branson
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We never look at people with the eye of God instead we look at them from their past, what they did w

Author: Patience Johnson
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether pec

Author: Adam Smith
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Be a lover of the world, it is the only way to survive in it.

Author: Janosch
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It's just been a lot of hard work and lot of auditions. A lot of ups and downs, but a lot of ups, an

Author: Bresha Webb
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Author: William J. H. Boetcker
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And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I reme

Author: Clarice Lispector
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We were created to be productive

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Author: Lao Tzu
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If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. Bu

Author: Peter Kreeft
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My godis not as unreachable asthey'd like you to thinkmy god is beating inside us infinitely

Author: Rupi Kaur
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Unzip your life right now, air out the putrid and bleach the infection, then invite your childhood d

Author: Toni Sorenson
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To be beautiful is a good thing, for which we should thank Nature—to be attractive, morally, rather

Author: Unknown
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Great leaders are teachable leaders.

Author: Gary Rohrmayer
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If school results were the key to power girls would be running the world.

Author: Sarah Boseley
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Every time a man smiles and much more when he laughs it adds something to his fragment of life.

Author: Laurence Sterne
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Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?""Yes, of course it is. At least, when you g

Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
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Without hair, A queen is still a queen’.

Author: Prajakta Mhadnak
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Smile! Accept hatred with love.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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There are some people who will surprise you with their perseverance... People who survive through th

Author: Steve Maraboli
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Once I stand and watch helplessly while some rug rat pulls everything he can reach off the racks, an

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially co

Author: James Polshek
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So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then m

Author: Lady Gaga
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Do not allow yourself to be someone back-up plan, just in cAse, a B-plan, a second-line or contingen

Author: Ejump Schiffler
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When the same lessons of life that taught them teaches you, you get a good understanding of what mad

Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line a

Author: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it

Author: Tom Stoppard
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Only a fool goes to war in winter.

Author: Jayne Castel
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Let's not cry about it, shall we, Marcy? Let's pray about it instead.

Author: Lessman
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

Author: Bono
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And if you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer. S

Author: Shane L. Koyczan
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Schedule happy experiences to displace unhappy memories.

Author: Mensah Oteh
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The biggest difference between between religious people and gospel-loving people is that religious p

Author: Jefferson Bethke
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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed duri

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it.

Author: Katerina Stoykova Klemer
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Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.

Author: Rosanna Arquette
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A determined will, grounded on a clear order of rank of values, coupled with organic strength of out

Author: Alfred Rosenberg
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I’ve always had a thing for men with large hadron colliders.

Author: Cole McCade
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The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph

Author: Dean Koontz
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This first time , my Sprite friend went for help, then Aiden went all shifter Hulk version and Loki'

Author: Alanea Alder
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I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experi

Author: Marina Abramovic
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He held up his index finger. "Rule one: in any dispute between mates, themale is always to blame, ev

Author: C.L. Wilson
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Life is a dance.

Author: Unknown
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Everything Can Change in One Moment of Time

Author: Debbie Ann Egdell