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Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.
My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.
God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.
All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.
the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.
When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.
Knowing that we can make a difference in this world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved?
There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.
Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.
If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.
Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
Live Foods and Exercise = Good Health and Happiness. Make eating the right foods and daily workouts a top priority.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.
America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood.
Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.
As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.
Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.
The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.
When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.
A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.
We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them
What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
The solutions the non-profits are trying to provide aren't keeping pace with the problems they're trying to survive.
The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.
Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.
[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.
With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.
Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.
Whether you are a business leader or political leader, you need people around you who are prepared to tell the truth.
We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.
The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.