T Quotes
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“The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.”
Source: Leading Valiantly in Healthcare: Four Steps to Sustainable Success
“The leadership spirit comes with a spirit of leadership.”
“The leadership spirit possess a natural love for all human beings.”
“The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.”
“The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.”
“The leaderships on both sides have everyone in a trap. They too are trapped. If Palestine Authority leaders repeatedly made statements strongly condemning all violence, many of those subject to checkpoint humiliations, night raids and house demolitions might switch support to Hamas. An Israeli government ending all repression might be accused of betrayal of Zionism. Two peoples, two leaderships, a four-way entrapment. I hope there are political scientists and game theorists working out escape strategies. Meanwhile some pessimism seems hard to avoid.”
Source: Israelis and Palestinians: From the Cycle of Violence to the Conversation of Mankind
“The leader’s (Jeff Denson’s) superb bowing.. showcasing Denson’s haunting vocals”
“The leader’s Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.”
Source: The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
“The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility, remarkable feebleness of the heart's action, irritability of the stomach, and a peculiar change of the colour in the skin, occurring in connection with a diseased condition of the suprarenal capsules.”
“The leading authorities on the subject of revolutionary upheavals recognize three essentials for a revolution — using the word in its historical sense and not in its popular sense of “a Red plot”:
a revolutionary situation, a revolutionary leadership, and a revolutionary act,
a triple necessity admirably illustrated by the Leninist revolution in Russia in 1917, so
admirably indeed that to the very great detriment of the revolutionary cause the brilliant
opportunism which took full advantage of special, circumstances has been stereotyped
into a formula which is at once a recipe for and a test of revolution.”
“The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.”
Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
“The leading cause of death - heart disease -, and the most common mental illness - depression -, have one thing in common - lack of consciousness. This consciousness is not a metaphysical or philosophical construct but an understanding that becomes very organic when found. Those who express too much anger, resentment and ignorance are part of this spiritual darkness that comes from a complete detachment from consciousness. The progress of consciousness then begins with a comprehension of our senses. At the most fundamental level, we must understand the Muladhara chakra - our connection to mother Earth. You then come to the second chakra, which is balanced through what you eat - it is empowered with that which comes from the soil or that which is rooted to the soil. And then you can begin to understand the third chakra - what you feel. You heal these 3 chakras, and you begin to understand consciousness while healing your body and mind.”
“The leading cause of death is birth.”
“The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.”
“The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on Macedonia, are of a reddish black; those of Breotia are more red than black; and the kind that is found in Troas is black, of the female sex, and consequently destitute of attractive power.”
“The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.”
“The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.”
Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival
“the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion - that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion - that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion - that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion - that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!”
“The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear of the student of Nature seems echoed from every part of her works, is-Time!-Time!-Time!”
“The leading lady had a large and saving sense of humor. But there is nothing that blunts the sense of humor more quickly than a few months of one-night stands. Even O. Henry could have seen nothing funny about that room.”
“The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the Americans put in place.”
“The leading non-establishment Republican candidate for president, Donald Trump, is just sailing past [establishment Republican candidates] in the polls. He is still surging. He is basically killing them all.”
“The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.”
“The leading research in the adverse human health effects of electromagnetic radiation is not being done by well funded governments or corporations, it is coming from a few self funded independent researchers.”
“The leading research on High Altitude Observatory Diseases (HAOD) is coming out of the USA from a British Chartered Engineer.”
“The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.”
“The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”
Source: Lincoln on Democracy
“The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.”
“The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”
Source: World Orders, Old and New
“The leading, the most respected Vietnam historian, military historian Bernard Fall -he was a hawk incidentally, but he cared for the Vietnamese - he said it wasn't clear to him whether Vietnam could survive as a historical and cultural entity under the most massive attack that any region that size had ever suffered. He was talking about South Vietnam, incidentally.”
“The Leads of Leads are switch hitters. Their day is equal parts tactics and strategy. While they have developed true distance from the day-to-day work, they still know how the work is done and can have an informed opinion about tactics relative to the work. They also have a more complete picture of the state of the company, which enables them to make better decisions and define better strategy. They see the complete game board. They see all the pieces, so they can be credible strategists.”
Source: Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
“The leaf does not grow before the plant.
The garden does not grow before the flowers.
The forest does not grow before the tree.
The harvest does not grow before the seeds.
The flame does not grow before the spark.
The ocean does not grow before the river.
The finger does not grow before the hand.
The toe does not grow before the foot.
The soul does not grow before the mind.
The heart does not grow before the body.
The world does not grow before the sky.
The heavens do not grow before the universe.
The child does not grow before the family.
The teacher does not grow before the student.
The music does not grow before the artist.
The team does not grow before the coach.
The flock does not grow before the shepherd.
The army does not grow before the warrior.”
“The leaf does not immediately absorb the drop of water falling on it; she slowly drinks with great pleasure!”
“The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror.”
“The leaf-light flickered on the paper-thin skin of the old men's wrists, the shadows alternating with fading sunlight. They moved in a soft whisper.”
Source: Farewell Summer
“The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.”
Source: The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'
“The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.”
“The leaf that spreads in the light is the only holiness there is. I haven't found holiness in the faiths of mortals, or in their music, not in their dreams: it's out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don't know what it is, this holiness: but it's there, and it looks at the sky.
Probably though this is some conditioning the Company installed to ensure I'd be a good botanist. Well, I grew up into a good one. Damned good.”
“The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.”
Source: Complete Poems and Major Prose
“The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.”
“The leafy avenues, well-trimmed hedges and colourful, kempt gardens had oodles of eye appeal. She could see herself taking walks down the tree-lined streets to enjoy the aesthetic landscape.”
Source: What Change May Come
“The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.”
Source: Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations
“The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.”
“The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in maintaining the highest artistic standards in a period of economic crisis. Who can save us from the downhill trend of our economy except the vigor of our arts? Theatre, music and education are our only hopes to lift our times beyond their despair and create a viable, prosperous culture.”
“The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.”
“The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league.
(on Major League Soccer)”
“The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.”
“The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do. I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world's great problems. It's ultimately an answer to the question: How can we learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn't?”
“The lean startup method is not about cost, it is about speed.”
“The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.”