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The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. ↗

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

#leadership #leadership

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.] ↗

— Winston Churchill

#classic-insult #vice #virtue #leadership

Life's short. Live passionately. ↗

— Marc A. Pitman

#life-coaching #motivation #passion #leadership

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such. ↗

— Jane Austen

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The smallest thing in this universe is an intelligent living creature. He sets himself to be imaginary in the premises of arrogant scientist. ↗

— Toba Beta

#love #smallest-thing #undivided #intelligence

Einstein's theory, experimentally corroborated for the last hundred years, regardless of how outlandish and opposed to our prejudices (disguised as they are with the 'common sense' costume), is rational, consistent, and intelligible to the layperson - if s/he has the audacity of accepting the unfounded nature of those prejudices. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#science #intelligence

The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview ↗

— China Miéville

#china-mieville #intelligence

Indeed, kids who start lying at two or three—or who can control verbal leakage at four or five—do better on other tests of academic prowess. “Lying is related to intelligence,” confirmed Talwar, “but you still have to deal with it. ↗

— Po Bronson

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When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#leaders #leadership #responsibility #leadership

We can also profit by reading more modern authors who seem at first sight to be merely perversely questioning what every sensible person knows to be true. Such writers do us a great service, of forcing us to question our old beliefs, so that we may freely and intelligently choose what is sound in them and reject the rest, and thus have our minds prepared for seeing new and unfamiliar truths. Most people do not need protection from being shocked. They need to be shocked a great deal more than they are. ↗

— R.H. Thouless and C.R. Thouless

#straight-crooked-thinking #intelligence