"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
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"When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders."
"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use."
"If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success."
"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
"A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence."
"There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader."
"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."
"Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average."
"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."
"The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same."
"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem"
"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action."
"As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go."
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
"Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things."
"If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system."
"It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head."