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“A leader’s goal is to improve on upon the past and if your goal is to remain where you are, doing the same things you have done times and times again, you can’t lead.”

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“Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line.”

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“I therefore hold the legendary Jesus in no way responsible for the trouble: it began with Luther, perhaps, and went on with Wesley; but no matter! — what I am trying to get at is the religion which makes England to-day a hell for any man who cares at all for freedom. That religion they call Christianity; the devil they honour they call God. I accept these definitions, as a poet must do, if he is to be at all intelligible to his age, and it is their God and their religion that I hate and will destroy.”

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Book:The World's Tragedy
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“Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers.”

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“A self-leader looks around for problems, and then thinks deep to device solutions to them.”

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“The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.”

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“People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.”

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“The compulsive quest for certainty, as we find with Luther, is not the expression of genuine faith but is rooted in the need to conquer the unbearable doubt. Luther's solution is one which we find present in many individuals today, who do not think in theological terms: namely to find certainty by elimination of the isolated individual self, by becoming an instrument in the hands of an overwhelmingly strong power outside of the individual. For Luther this power was God and in unqualified submission he sought certainty. But although he thus succeeded in silencing his doubts to some extent, they never really disappeared; up to his last day he had attacks of doubt which he had to conquer by renewed efforts toward submission.”

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Book:Escape from Freedom
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“…one main point in Luther's teachings was his emphasis on the evilness of human nature, the uselessness of his will and of his efforts. Calvin placed the same emphasis on the wickedness of man and put in the center of his whole system the idea that man must humiliate his self-pride to the utmost; and furthermore, that the purpose of man’s life is exclusively God's glory and nothing of his own. Thus Luther and Calvin psychologically prepared man for the role which he had to assume in modern society: of feeling his own self to be insignificant and of being ready to subordinate his life exclusively for purposes which were not his own. Once man was ready to become nothing but the means for the glory of a God who represented neither justice nor love, he was sufficiently prepared to accept the role of a servant to the economic machine—and eventually a “Führer.”

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Book:Escape from Freedom
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“Ensure you have done each day’s portion of the heavy responsibilities resting on you. Never delay your success!”

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“Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.”

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“Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can’t feel.”

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“Some say that the spiritual founder of the Rosicrucians was Paracelsus himself. In Huser's edition of his Prognostication Concerning the Next Twenty-four Years there is a woodcut of a child looking toward a heap of Paracelsus's books, some inscribed with a capital R and one bearing the word Rosa. But the significance of this imagery for the Rosicrucians seems spurious.* The rose that the secret society chose as its symbol is in fact derived from the emblem of Martin Luther, in which a heart and cross spring from the center of the flower. The movement began as a society of Protestant Paracelsians founded by the alchemist Johann Valentin Andreae of Herrenberg. *The Paracelsus connection remains puzzling, however. In the first edition of the Philosophia Magna, published by Birckmann in 1567, the Hirschvogel woodcut of Paracelsus appears in modified form with various strange images in the background that later became clearly associated with Rosicrucianism, such as a child's head emerging from a cleft in the ground. What is the significance of these symbols, fifty years before the Rosicrucian movement came into the open?”

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Book:The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
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“Be passionate about your dreams and never give sleep to your eyes until your good becomes better and your better becomes the best.”

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“Until you let go of that bitterness in your heart, it will find a comfortable place to destroy your dreams, your sight and most times, your sleep.”

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“You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved.”

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“Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.”

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“You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!”

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“This fact is that the heaviest and more burdensome load ever is neither the cement bag nor the iron rod. It is hatred.”

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“You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.”

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“Stick to love; it is heavy and it will carry you. Avoid hatred; it is heavy and you have to carry it. It is left to you to make your choice.”

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“Never let hatred give you an escort. It will drag your attention from all fortunes along the way.”

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“To influence people with your leadership gifts, you don’t make them your enemies. When they are your enemies, they won’t take your words seriously; neither will they support your actions.”

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“You can’t work with people you hate and succeed. At least, you won’t get the optimum of what you would have obtained when you work with people you love.”

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“You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.”

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“Not money, not fame and not positions can transform an enemy into a friend but rather, it is love that can do such a job.”

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