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You don't feel like a winner and then do; you do like a winner and then feel. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

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the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#politics #saints #leadership

...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be 'blind'. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#discipline #leadership #management-theory #motivational #organization-wisdom

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #pride #religion #religious-leadership #the-sin-of-pride

Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward him and say: 'See, there He is. He makes us one.' Perhaps religion serves the same purpose, m'Lord. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#emperor #religion #scytale #leadership

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#after #designs #done #how #i

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#independence #individuality #leadership #submission #suppression

The role of leaders is not to get other people to follow them but to empower others to lead. ↗

— Bill George

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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#been #get #his #leader #people

Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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