“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” PeopleInspirationalMotivationalLeadershipCommonLeaderVisionAnxietyMajorsEssenceCharacteristicsWillingnessGreat LeaderBeing A LeaderInspiring LeaderGreat LeadershipLeadership By Famous LeadersBest LeaderLeadership By Great LeadersGreatest LeadershipFuture LeadersPowerful LeadersInnovation And LeadershipParticipative LeadershipLeading On Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at its torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.” LooksForceFeltLove IsCommonWonderUnderstoodEssenceDuesSubtleMetaphysicalTormentFeverSufferersIndefinable Book:Lady Audley's Secret Source: Lady Audley's Secret
“The best attitude to receive the Pope's teachings is to understand that he is a religious leader and the essence of his message comes from the Gospel, not from one ideology or another.And so, if our economic systems are not oriented toward the human person but only concerned with profits, he wants to confront the system and change it. This, by the way, is common to all the popes, it comes directly from the so-called social teachings of the church.” IfsWayWantHumansPersonsSocialChurchReligiousCommonAttitudeLeaderEconomicTeachingMessagesConcernedEssenceProfitIdeologyPopeEconomic SystemsBest AttitudeReligious Leaders Author:Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo
“I think [rock'n'roll] essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good - it's against everything that is fixed, all the social structures that you can't go past.” ThinkingMadePastSocialCommonRocksEssenceStructureMade ItFixedRock N RollMonotheismSocial Structure Author:Ezra Furman
“If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace - that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government - for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable - in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.” IfsMenWorldMindMayEndsGovernmentMovingLawCommonFashionProduceLessonsTasksEssenceBasesEducationalSecureSufficientInterpretationRighteousnessCooperationWorld Government Author:H. G. Wells
“The common ground where the activities of God and man become one is the motive of perfect love; for in the last resolve love is the essence of God's nature. When he thinks, love is his thought; when he wills, love is the product of his will. To the degree, therefore, that man thinks and wills the good--to the degree that he realizes love in his finite dealings--he interfuses himself with God.” ThinkingMenLastsRealizingPerfectLove IsCommonProductsActivityDegreesEssenceMotiveResolveFiniteCommon GroundDealingsPerfect Love Author:Frank C. Lockwood
“To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.” CountryIndividualCommonEssenceCitizenshipCoercionCommon GoodFree Country Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“If all our common-sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of years ago. The purpose of science is to peel back the layer of the appearance of the objects to reveal their underlying nature. In fact, if appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science.” IfsNeedsYearsFactsWould BePurposeUniverseCommonSecretObjectsYears AgoEssenceNotionAppearanceCommon SenseLayers Author:Michio Kaku
“This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.” KnowsWorldWantValuesSimpleCommonTalkingCitizensTruth IsDiversityMessagesEssenceFellowsWho You AreSimple Truths Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.” HumansRealLawHateEvilInterestSpaceForgetCommonRaceEmotionExistenceAchieveMankindEssenceLocalsTalesDimensionsGood And EvilCosmosSignificanceTemporaryGood LifeAttributesPremisesValidityLove And HateOrganic LifeExternalitiesEvil Love Book:The Classic Horror Stories Source: The Classic Horror Stories
“What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what she is for me. I love her as character in our common love story. what wuld Hamlet be without the castle at Elsinore, without Ophelia, without all the concrete situations he goes through, what would he be without the text of his part? What would be left but an empty, dumb, illusory essence?” CharacterStoriesWould BeTurnsLeftSidesCommonSituationEmptyEssenceLove StoryDumbConcreteCastlesIllusoryOphelia Author:Milan Kundera
“There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point.” IfsThinkingFirstsKindTwoHandsChristianCommonExistenceClassEssenceAtheistSubjectivityTurning PointsAtheisticExistentialist Author:Jean-Paul Sartre