#cs

Some leaders are born women. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#leaders #leadership #politics #women #leadership

African leaders should not turn the continent into a giant collector of donations and loans from wealthy nations—they must find other plausible means to help established their economic security so as to minimize poverty. This incoherent blunder on the mainland must be scrutinized. ↗

— Duop Chak Wuol

#economics-philosophy #grant #leadership #loans #leadership

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#critics #age

Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think. ↗

— Patrick Lencioni

#leadership

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#generals #george-b-mcclellan #leadership #united-states-congress #war

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#leadership #politics #leadership

There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet. ↗

— Koren Zailckas

#hippie #hippies #metaphysics #new-age #yoga

But I know just what it feels like to have a voice in the back of my head, like a face that I hold inside, face that awakes when I close my eyes, face that watches everytime I lie, face that laughs everytime I fall. (It watches EVERYTHING) ... But the face inside is hearing me, right beneath my skin. ↗

— Linkin Park

#lyrics #music #truth #music

Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#music #singing #wrong-lyrics #life

There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief... ↗

— Bob Dylan

#song-lyrics #music