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We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.

Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the truth." The point is clear: If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.

We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.

We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.

We ought to love the sinner and hate OUR sin.

We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never ending Improvement.

We only wanted to pay significant sums to keep truly special players.

We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.

We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals.

We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it through God's eyes. As much fun as it was to be winning, we tried not to get caught up in it. We knew that our family life and our faith walk were more important.

We take in more a week now than we did in two years when I first came to the church.

We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.

We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. The days are always dark enough. There is no need for us to emphasize the fact by spreading further gloom.

We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons.

We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.

We've got to build scale. We're going to hire the best people, build the best systems, and find solutions.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

We've gotten so much as a result of the changes. Part of our responsibility is to give something back to the game and the girls who are just starting to play.

We've got to make the small things unforgettable.

We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions violence as the final assertion of manhood, synonymous with nationhood.

What blame did Jesus have when He took the full blame for your sin?

What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.

What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Whatever influence you have, it's only for a small amount of time. When Sir Frank (Packer) sold the Daily and Sunday Telegraph to Rupert Murdoch in 1972, I lost my position as women's editor. Suddenly the phones stopped ringing. All the people who said they were my friends, I didn't hear from them. I was only in my 20's, and that was a sobering lesson to learn: how fleeting everything is, and how easily it can be taken away from you. So you never take yourself too seriously, you never think you're too important.

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.

What helps people, helps business.

What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience; some people don't. Everybody has some kind of experience. It's what you do with that experience that matters.

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.