#sk

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ↗

— John Buchan

#elicit #greatness #humanity #into #leadership

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse? ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#first #how #job #king #minister

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' ↗

— Henry Miller

#ask #asking #bring #damage #good

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there? ↗

— Jose Saramago

#base #bush #chavez #flag #him

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound. ↗

— Robert Morris

#could #discovered #five #get #good

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

The first day was memorable for me. I walked into this studio with these giant eyes, slowly met everybody and got to see the story boards and sketches of our characters. I got the see the sets and was just amazed that all this was to be something we all were going to be part of for almost a year. ↗

— Kyle Schmid

#amazed #boards #characters #day #everybody

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA. ↗

— Fred Upton

#american consumer #carbon #consumer #cuts #electricity

If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way. ↗

— Xavier Niel

#aggressive #firm #launch #reputation #risk

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#civilization #lamb #skin #which