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Ability
Leadership ... the ability to see what no one else sees, to listen when others talk and the ability to be optimistic when others are pessimistic.
- George W. Cummings
Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge so as to meet successfully the emergencies of life. Men may acquire knowledge, but wisdom is a direct gift from God.
- Bob Jones
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
- Robert Half
Achievement
It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work. (from The Alchemist)
- Paul Coelho
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
- Alexis De Tocqueville
Inspirational
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step
- Samuel Smiles
Good things don't come to those who wait, they come to those who want something so bad, they can't wait for it.
- Ashton Kutcher
, Just Married (Movie)
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford
Leadership
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
- Mary Kay Ash
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
- John Naisbitt
The penalty of leadership is loneliness.
- H. Wheeler Robinson
Learning
The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
- Sir William Osler
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
- John Dewey
The principal goal of education... should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things... men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers.
- Jean Piaget
Other
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
- Ambrose Bierce
Hopeless romantics are only hopeless in the eyes of those who don't believe in romance.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wisdom
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
- James Bryant Conant
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
- Thomas Huxley
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