A Quotes
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“A leadership born from a rigid hierarchy is doomed to stifle creativity and foster toxicity.”
“A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.”
Source: The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery
“A leader’s most powerful ally is his or her own example.”
Source: Coach Wooden One-On-One
“A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.”
“A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.”
“A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill.
ting beside her pillow, the scholar spoke about how terrible the world was. In reply, Rabi`a told him:
"You love the world very dearly. If you did not love the world, you would not mention it so much. It is always the purchaser who first disparages what he wants to buy. If you were done with the world, you would not mention it either for good or evil. As it is, you keep mentioning it because, as the proverb says, whoever loves a thing mentions it frequently."”
“A leading voice in the chorus of social transition belongs to the white liberal, whether he speak through the government, the church, the voluntary welfare agencies or the civil rights movement. Over the last few years many Negroes have felt that their most troublesome adversary was not the obvious bigot of the Ku Klux Klan or the John Birch Society, but the white liberal who is more devoted to “order” than to justice, who prefers tranquillity to equality. In a sense the white liberal has been victimized with some of the same ambivalence that has been a constant part of our national heritage. Even in areas where liberals have great influence— labor unions, schools, churches and politics—the situation of the Negro is not much better than in areas where they are not dominant. This is why many liberals have fallen into the trap of seeing integration in merely aesthetic terms, where a token number of Negroes adds color to a white-dominated power structure.”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“A leading woman does not follow those who go against her mandate, because she is focused on achieving the right outcomes.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A leaf cannot return to the bud - bluestar to fireheart and greystripe”
“A leaf fell from the tree, trembled with fear, and prayed, “Cod, stitch me back to the tree.” God didn’t seem to listen. So it befriended air, which took it far away from the tree.
Another leaf accepted the fall without fear. It turned into compost and entered back in the roots of the tree. It rose through the tree and became a new leaf in next season. It got “stitched” back to the tree!”
“A leaf flattened itself against the window beside his head and leaped away into the darkness, and a feeling of profound despair came over him because everything he had done was useless. All that he believed in and had attempted to prove seemed meager, all of his life was wasted”
Source: Mr. Bridge
“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”
“A leaf has no power to resist when the wind blows, but when life’s storms rage, you do.”
“A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows.”
“A leaf that falls into a stream (or a leaf we intentionally drop into a stream) just where the water disappears into the ground...will come out again at the next opening, because the underground stream has faithfully carried it there, though during this journey it has been beyond the reach of any outside interference. In the same way, an idea that has been introduced into our minds (or that we ourselves have intentionally introduced) will produce its effects after longer or shorter subconscious development.”
“A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.”
“A leaf wants to meet the tree. What should it do? It should find out whether it is actually a leaf or it is a power which is falsely identifying itself as leaf.”
“A league of dragons emerged from the steam, all in a white, cloudy vapor. They flew upward to the sky. The fragrance of the tea reminded me of the high altitudes of the mountain, the blooming peonies from the rooftop garden, and the brininess of the Singing Sea. The intoxicating taste introduced an umami flavor I'd never experienced in any drink. The punch from its intensity matched my first taste of flame song whiskey and its richness, that of the most pungent king oyster mushrooms.”
Source: Celestial Banquet
“A League of Their Own' had some special meaning for me, I guess - it's about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters sticking together even when there's drama and struggles. I'm really close to my two sisters and my brother, so I liked that about it.”
“A leaky faucet, a barking dog - those are things you tolerate.”
“A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have not: a beard neglected; which you have not: — but I pardon you for that; for, simply, your having1 in beard is a younger brother's revenue: — Then your hose should be ungarter'd, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation.”
“A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.”
“A lean purse is easier to cure than to endure.”
Source: The Richest Man in Babylon
“A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.”
Source: The Life of Nancy
“A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable.”
Source: Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy
“A leapord never changes his stripes.”
“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got.”
“A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”
“A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.”
“A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.”
“A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, "I am lost.”
Source: War Is Kind and Other Poems
“A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.”
Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918
“A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.”
“A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.”
“A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue”
“A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly analyze the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the senses, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what ; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.”
“A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead.”
“A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.”
“A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.”
“A Learning Disability/Disorder is a neurological condition that makes it difficult for the student to receive, process, and use certain information. Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Dyspraxia, and Dysphasia are some of the common types of learning disabilities/disorders.”
“A learning experience for sure. You're always learning in this business. How to work with people and how to handle your band on a professional level. How to stick up for your band and do what you think is the right thing and to know when to let things happen against what you think is best. It's challenging but it's been a good thing for us, no doubt.”
“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.”
“A Learning Mind In Motion
Stays In Motion”
“A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.”
“A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“A leather bag filled with food and a flask of hot tea.”
Source: Catching Fire