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I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another. Making agreements and setting goals without building upon the feelings of the parties involved is empty, because it does not consider the vulnerabilities of our own humanity.

I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize the successful people that I have been fortunate enough to know and observe. I do know, from my own experience, that our chance of succeeding is much greater when we organize and take charge of our lives. When we are willing to make decisions, we aggressively pursue those things in life that are important to us.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

I don't know, but I stepped on a scale that gives fortunes and the card read Come back in 15 minutes alone.

I don't know of a way to have a generous church without a generous pastor.

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

I don't pick on anybody who has a number above 30.

I don't think either team can win it.

I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.

I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being.

I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.

I do what I do because I believe in the country that we live in. I believe we are making a difference in stemming the flow of terrorism into Australia... I want my children to be able to live as everyone does now without the fear of getting on a bus and having it blow up.

If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.

I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.

I embrace the concept of enlightened self-interest - that in doing something for others, people also reap profound benefits for themselves. It might involve a little bit of sacrifice and discipline, but, and this is so crucial to understand, that participation has given me back so, so much more than I have given it.

If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.

If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

If God can save Paul, He can save anybody. If God could use me, God could use anybody.

If God did not care for you, there would never be a sense of a need to respond.

If God gives you a platform where you're influencing others, you need to steward it well.

If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.

If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

If I don't let God deal with my bentness, I will go the way of my bentness. But Jesus can straighten me out.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.