“Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.”
Wise feeling
Wise Quotes — page 121 of 916
“I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.”
“Congress is responsible for every major change in India”
“The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.”
“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”
“Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.”
“In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.”
“If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.”
“When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.”
“For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.”
“People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.”
“Activity is the only road to knowledge.”
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
“There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.”
“There are many occasions when the muscles that form the lips of the mouth move the lateral muscles that are joined to them, and there are an equal number of occasions when these lateral muscles move the lips of this mouth, replacing it where it cannot return of itself, because the function of muscle is to pull and not to push except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.”
“Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.”
“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.”
“Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.”
“The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.”