#character

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#flaws #interesting #main #me #never

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#deniability #mistakes #passive-voice #politics #villainy

People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent. ↗

— Hugo Hamilton

#future #growing-up #growth #heritage #history

Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#began #character #contributed #i #invited

There is no better manager than a natural born one. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#leader-development #leadership #leadership-development #manager-qualities #leadership

Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. ↗

— Bernard Montgomery

#inspirational

The good leader repeats the good news, keeps the worst to himself. ↗

— Sophocles

#leadership

People will follow you when you build the character to follow through. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#leadership #leadership

Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#character-defining #characteristics-of-leadership #r-alan-woods #leadership

Leadership is first and foremost bout character, one who is in power but not subordinate to it, one has control of money but is not lured by it, one whose position opens all doors but prefers the simplicity of lifestyle, and one who is followed by many but takes the heart of a servant. ↗

— Wilfrido V. Villacorta

#leadership