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Stanley McChrystal: Leadership
“Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.”—Stanley McChrystal.
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Buddha: Authorship
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. —Buddha
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Beverly Sills: No shortcuts
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” –Beverly Sills
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James Boswell: Friends and companions
“A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. ” —James Boswell.
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Robin Williams: God's oversight!
“God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. ” –—Robin Williams
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Stanislaw Lern: Torture
“To torture a man you have to know his pleasures. ” —Stanislaw Lern Related articles Dog tortured with shackles is rescued in China (preciousjules1985.wordpress.com)
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Arthur Rubinstein: Success
“Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.” —Arthur Rubinstein
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Norman Vincent Peale: Over the fence
“Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.” —Norman Vincent Peale
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George Santayana: Courteously skeptic
“There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. ” —George Santayana
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Albert Schweitzer: Happiness
“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. ” —Albert Schweitzer
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Bob Dylan: Musical land
“This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. ” —Bob Dylan.
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Alfred P. Sloan: Creative spirit
“The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs. ” –— Alfred P. Sloan
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Bennett Cerf: Pats versus kicks
“A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results. ” —Bennett Cerf Related articles Random House Founder Bennett Cerf, as Skillful Storyteller and Humorist (wnyc.org)
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Carly Patterson: First…
“Well, first I have to make the team, of course. ” —Carly Patterson
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Milton Glaser: Soulless talent
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. – Milton Glaser Related articles Milton Glaser inspired Birthday Cake (swiss-miss.com)
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Sting: Love and justice
“Love is stronger than justice. ”
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Stanislaw J. Lec: Beyond America
Who knows what Columbus would have discovered if America hadn’t got in the way. -Stanislaw J. Lec, poet and aphorist (1909-1966) Related articles Columbus’ spirit (triblive.com)
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James J Corbett: Justice and injustice
“Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice. ” —James J Corbett
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Martin Luther King Jr: Lightness of love
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
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Sonya Friedman: Treatment
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” —Sonya Friedman
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William Blake: A Poison Tree
A Poison Tree I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water’d it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I summoned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And…
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Kyle Neath: Quality ship!
.. another misinterpretation that’s always bugged me: Ship early, ship often OR Ship quality product. Quality isn’t something to be sacrificed … Ship early, ship often, sacrificing features, never quality. – Kyle Neath
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Napoleon Hill: Being quiet
“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.” ~ Napoleon Hill.
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Go beyond first impressions to better understand others
He was a leader who had a big swagger. He was brash, with an audacity and arrogance beyond compare. I observed him from afar and disliked him immediately. One day, he reached out to me and asked me to coach him. Although I didn’t realize it then, this was a test. Could I find…
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Alice Miller: On contempt
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one’s own despised and unwanted feelings. –Alice Miller, psychologist and author (1923-2010)
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Confucius: Change — often!
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. —Confucius
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T.S. Eliot: Fugitivism
“In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.” —T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965).
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John E. Hines: Preaching
“Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God. ” –—John E. Hines Related articles What I’ve Learned Along the Way (challies.com) Evangelistic preaching (eardstapa.wordpress.com) Preaching Politics (bluechippastor.org) Who Are You Preaching To? (biblicalpreaching.net) Sermons On Mark 10:2-16…
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W. Somerset Maugham: Imagination
“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. ” —W. Somerset Maugham.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Vindictiveness and logic
“Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. ” —Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Unknown: Life
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath.
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John Dryden: Errors
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: / Who would search for pearls must dive below. –John Dryden, poet and dramatist (1631-1700)
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How to Respond to Negativity
Countering someone’s negativity with your positivity doesn’t work because it’sargumentative. People don’t like to be emotionally contradicted and if you try to convince them that they shouldn’t feel something, they’ll only feel it more stubbornly. And if you’re a leader trying to be positive, it comes off even worse because you’ll appear out…
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Alice Walker: No power
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ” —Alice Walker
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Dianne Feinstein: Leadership
“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. ” –—Dianne Feinstein
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William Shakespeare: Honorable men
“For Brutus is an honourable man;So are they all, all honourable men.” —William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar“, Act 3 scene 2.
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Jamie Croft: Designer dialogue
Client: “My wife doesn’t like it”; Designer: “Well then, I don’t like your wife” – Jamie Croft
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Duke of Wellington: Bureaucracy
A wonderful message to the British Foreign Office from the Duke of Wellington in 1812. “Gentlemen, Whilst marching from Portugal to a position which commands the approach to Madrid and the French forces, my officers have been diligently complying with your requests which have been sent by His Majesty’s ship from London to Lisbon and…
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What to Do When You Have to Work with Someone You Don't Like
Jeff*, like me, is a writer, a speaker, and the head of a consulting company. As far as I can tell, he’s professional, well respected, capable, honest, and has a popular following. Someone we both know has asked us to collaborate on a project and there’s clearly a mutual benefit to our working together. It…
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Rhonda Byrne: What you attract
“Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting.” —“The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne.
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Dag Hammarskjold: Easy to be nice
“It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character. ” —Dag Hammarskjold.
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Edmund Burke: Despair
“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. ” —Edmund Burke.
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Henry David Thoreau: Conformance
“As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.”—Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862).
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Theodore Roosevelt: Credit
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who…
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Mahatma Gandhi: Seven sins
“There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.” Mahatma Gandhi
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George Santayana: Intolerance and egoism
“Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.” George Santayana
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Strong language
“The strength of a language does not lie in rejecting what is foreign but in assimilating it.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832).
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Allen Klein: Laugh
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat. ” Allen Klein
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Don't Just Buy Local, Buy Personal
A small business near me closed down. I feel terrible because it’s partly my fault. Every entrepreneur has big dreams. Many have small budgets, though, so they do the best they can. They hope for great word of mouth since they have no marketing budget. They hope quality and service will…
