Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Carl Sagan

I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks ...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

Bill Bradley

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Ernie Fletcher

That's tough, but I think that's what a leader is called to do.

That's what I'm most proud of about this team - the senior players are leading by example. It's a lovely thing to see.

I was not comfortable - a 4-1 lead means nothing in a state playoff game.

I would move the bill, obviously, and I don't think that's what our leadership wants us to do.

Michael Strahan

I think I've done just about everything I could do as a leader, ... You lead by words, by example.

I think this is a one-day pause. I'd be really surprised if this was all there is to this rally. .. . I don't see anything in the tape today that leads me to think this trend should be over.

Peter Drucker

Management is doing a thing right; leadership is doing the right things.

Emily Williams

I'm here to teach them about JSU and different leadership positions and their roles.

Beck

You must see yourself as guardian, somebody who will preserve what is true and pass it on. Be a guardian. We don't need militants or revolutionaries. We need guardians. We need leaders.

Joe Gibbs

Mark and other team members have worked cooperatively with us in renegotiations, approaching the matter like the veterans and team leaders that they are.

Marty will be great. He's been a leader the whole time. It's not that big of an issue.

Listen to others with an open mind. Normally, that leads to a pleasant conversation.

You are going to see the two of them lead us all season and the thing is, they are only going to keep getting better. They don't run all year. They don't run track.

We've got some looseness in our structures and our processes, ... We have to get away from managing and reporting to leading and driving.

We're very team-oriented; when we get a lead up on someone, we try to get everyone involved. We want to give everyone the opportunity to contribute.

Valuations on mining stocks look very rich. Any pause in the spot price is leading to sharp price corrections and sentiment can reverse quite quickly.

We can't get a lead and maintain it. We aren't to that point.

We do want to come out and get us a little lead early. That is one of our goals, to get the tempo going in our favor.

With all of our background, and all of the things we were looking at, we put all the pieces together and it seemed like he was the one who would lead us the next decade.

Alexis Herman

We don't see that leading to any inflationary pressures on the economy.

We don't have a lot of depth. After losing an 11-point lead I took a look at what we had and wondered where our offense was going to come from and rolled the dice.

Justin Dentmon

I think he's being more of a leader and showing everyone that he can lead this team.

That whole team is on a mission. They have the senior leadership and they can win this.

Sgt. Maj. McKinney was a leader who abused his power,

On a night that we didn't shoot it well, that we had to rely on our defense, it was nice to know that we could get some stops down the stretch and spread our lead out.