#ship

Friendship has its illusions no less than love. ↗

— Stendhal

#illusions #less #love #than

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#down #failed #leadership #need #past

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#cannot #container #department #detection #devices

I don't want to lead. Never have. Some people might consider such a trait as a weakness, but I don't. Knowing your own strengths and weaknesses takes a lot of soul searching and honesty--something not everyone will take the time to explore. Doing so might reveal things they'd rather leave undiscovered. ↗

— C.J. Ellisson

#leadership #wisdom #leadership

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it. ↗

— Cyril Falls

#capacity #exercise #fosters #very

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#choirs #friends #growth #his #man

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. ↗

— John Evelyn

#golden #heart #thread #ties #world

So if you see no one like you, no one who agrees, don't worry. There are actually hundreds of people like you, and they're waiting for a leader. That person is you. ↗

— Julien Smith

#leader #leaders #leadership #leadership

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#ageism #basic #being #community #deny

I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end. ↗

— Dennis Franz

#devotion #end #i #length #miss