#hip

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players. ↗

— Larry Bird

#able #ball #being #crowd #dish

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#always #basis #friendships #hatreds #politics

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. ↗

— Larry Bird

#believe #better #getting #giving #go

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership. ↗

— Artur Davis

#america #celebrity #confuse #executive #experienced

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#friendship #heart #in print #makes #print

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. ↗

— Mark Twain

#balls #golf #golf balls #good #lost

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#chocolate #cows #cream #ice #ice cream

Britain, however, has ended up specialising in the ones you don't see as much of: defence aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 per cent of the world's mobile phones. And so there's a danger that because it doesn't have a British flag on it, people won't realise that we actually do produce value. ↗

— Evan Davis

#aerospace #because #britain #british #cars

But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and the like. There will be enormous ramifications across the beef industry generally as a result of the Government's decision to ban all exports to all of the abattoirs in Indonesia. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#attendant #ban #beef #cattle #decision

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#appear #congress #disadvantage #distinct #families