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leadership sports dream
A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true. Carol Mann
leadership acting needs
Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing Carlos Ghosn
leadership pieces roles
The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
leadership great-leader stage
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. Charles de Gaulle
leadership men endeavor
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
leadership men importance
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
leadership inspiration elements
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
leadership death witty
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
leadership hope encouragement
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Charles Caleb Colton
reality people sun
There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them. Carlos Fuentes
reality ordinary shallow
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality. Carlos Castaneda
reality historical normal
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
reality deaf-and-blind world
The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.
reality world way
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
reality world description
For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.
reality media gossip
Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies Carl Bernstein
reality definitions events
Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived. C. S. Lewis
reality morality pretending
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
voting
We usually have four. The voting was so close, we went with all six. Frank Beamer
voting rare-moments needs
In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible. Caroline Kennedy
voting territory negative
If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that. Janet Yellen
voting machines computer
It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold. Avi Rubin
voting use paper
Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.
voting abuse problem
Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison. Bob Barr
voting-age people vietnam
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. Birch Bayh
voting slavery privilege
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual? Benjamin Tucker
voting democracy return
Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns. Arlen Specter