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ABANDONMENT: Above all, abandonment is the key to innovation. Peter Drucker
ABANDONMENT: Planned, purposeful abandonment of the old and of the unrewarding is a prerequisite
pursuit of the new and highly promising. Peter Drucker
ABANDONMENT: In order to grow, a business must have a systematic policy to get rid of the outgrown,
the obsolete, and the unproductive. Peter Drucker
ABSURDITY:
If
at
first
an
idea
does
not
sound
absurd,
then
there
is
no
hope
for
it.
Einstein
ABSURDITY:
Only
those
who
attempt
the
absurd
will
achieve
the
impossible.
M.C.
Escher
ABSURDITY:
The
philosophies
of
one
age
have
become
the
absurdities
of
the
next,
and
the
foolishness
of
yesterday
has
become
the
wisdom
of
tomorrow.
William
Osler
ACCOMPLISHMENT:
Life
is
a
long
campaign
where
every
victory
merely
leaves
the
ground
free
for
another
battle,
and
sooner
or
later
defeat
comes
to
every
man,
unless
death
forestalls
it.
But
the
final
defeat
does
not
and
should
not
cancel
the
triumphs,
if
the
latter
have
been
substantial
and
for
a
cause
worth
championing.
Theodore
Roosevelt
ACCOUNTABILITY: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
ACCOUNTABILITY: Everyone needs someone who will ask him to give an account of himself, so that he
can face into his life and confess who he really is. Elizabeth O’Connor
ACTION,
RIGHT
ACTION:
Whatever
I
think
is
right
for
me
to
do,
I
do.
I
do
the
things
that
I
believe
ought
to
be
done.
And
when
I
make
up
my
mind
to
do
a
thing,
I
act.
Theodore
Roosevelt
ACTION:
Be
slow
in
action
and
when
you
act
be
steady.
Bias
of
Priene
ACTION:
I
put
myself
in
the
way
of
things
happening,
and
they
happened.
Theodore
Roosevelt
ACTION:
it
is
not
the
critic
who
counts;
not
the
man
who
points
out
how
the
strong
man
stumbles,
or
where
the
doer
of
deeds
could
have
done
better.
The
credit
belongs
to
the
man
who
is
actually
in
the
arena,
whose
face
is
marred
by
dust
and
sweat
and
blood;
who
strives
valiantly;
who
errs,
and
comes
short
again
and
again,
because
there
is
no
effort
without
error
or
shortcoming;
who
knows
the
great
enthusiasms,
the
great
devotions;
who
spends
himself
in
a
worthy
cause;
who
at
the
best
knows
in
the
end
the
triumph
of
high
achievement,
and
who
at
the
worst,
if
he
fails,
at
least
fails
while
daring
greatly,
so
that
his
place
shall
never
be
with
those
cold
and
timid
souls
who
know
neither
victory
nor
defeat.
Theodore
Roosevelt
ACTION:
Surely
the
principles
as
well
as
the
practice
of
Christianity
are
simple,
and
lead
not
to
meditation
only
but
to
action.
William
Pitt
to
Wilberforce
ACTION: the great end of life is not knowledge but action. T.H. Huxley
ACTION:
Think
like
a
person
of
action
and
act
like
a
person
of
thought.
Starbucks
ACTION: Launch early, iterate often. Google saying
ACTION/THINKING: Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Bergson
ACTIONS:
Our
acts
make
or
mar
us;
we
are
the
children
of
our
own
deeds.
Victor
Hugo
ACTORS:
If
there's
anything
unsettling
to
the
stomach,
it's
watching
actors
on
television
talk
about
their
personal
lives.
Marlon
Brando
ACTS:
You
should
not
consider
a
man’s
age,
but
his
acts.
Sophocles,
Antigone
ADOLESCENCE:
Adolescence
is
a
kind
of
emotional
seasickness.
Arthur
Koestler
ADVENTURES: "I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging and it's very
difficult to find anyone." "I should think so - in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use
for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what
anyone sees in them," said our Mr Baggins . . ." Gandalf to Bilbo
ADVENTURES: "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door: You step onto the road, and if
you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." Bilbo Baggin.
ADVERSITY: Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist; it reduces
him to his fighting weight. Josh Billings
ADVERTISEMENTS: The most powerful art form on earth. Mark Fenske
ADVERTISEMENTS: the richest and most faithful daily reflections that any society ever made of its
entire range of activities. Marshall McLuhan
ADVERTISING: Most advertising promises instant success, gratification, happiness. How you pay the bill
is discussed later. Dick Keyes, Seeing Through Cynicism
ADVICE: Advice is like kissing; it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do. Josh Billings
ADVICE:
Advice
is
seldom
welcome.
Those
who
need
it
most,
like
it
least.
Samuel
Johnson
ADVICE:
No
enemy
is
more
damaging
than
bad
advice.
Sophocles,
Electra
AFFLUENCE:
Affluence
is
a
painful,
contagious,
socially
transmitted
condition
of
overload,
debt,
anxiety
and
waste
resulting
from
the
dogged
pursuit
of
more.
John
de
Graaf,
PBS
producer
AFFLUENCE:
We
buy
things
we
don’t
need,
made
by
people
who
don’t
know
or
care
about
us,
with
money
we
don’t
have,
to
impress
people
we
don’t
like.
Dick
Staub,
The
Culturally
Savvy
Christian
AGNOSTICS:
Amiable
agnostics
will
take
cheerfully
about
“man’s
search
for
God.”
To
me,
as
I
then
was,
they
might
as
well
have
talked
about
the
mouse’s
search
for
the
cat.
C.S.
Lewis.
AMAZEMENT:
There
is
no
answer
in
the
world
to
man’s
amazement.
Abraham
Heschel
AMBITION:
If
you
deliberately
plan
to
be
less
than
you
are
capable
of
being,
then
I
warn
you
that
you'll
be
deeply
unhappy
for
the
rest
of
your
life.
Abraham
Maslow
AMBITION:
Men’s
ambition
and
their
desire
to
make
money
are
among
the
most
frequent
causes
of
deliberate
acts
of
injustice.
Aristotle,
Politics
AN
AUTHORITATIVE
GOD:
Only
if
your
God
can
say
things
that
outrage
you
and
make
you
struggle
will
you
know
you
have
gotten
hold
of
a
real
God
and
not
a
figment
of
your
imagination.
So
an
authoritative
Bible
is
not
the
enemy
of
a
personal
relationship
with
God.
It
is
the
precondition
for
it.
Tim
Keller,
The
Reason
for
God
ANARCHY:
Anarchy
is
the
absence
of
any
structure.
ANGER:
If
a
small
thing
has
the
power
to
make
you
angry,
does
that
not
indicate
something
about
your
size?
Sydney
J.
Harris
ANGER:
the
hardest
battle
I
have
had
to
fight,
however,
is
one
that
no
one
knows
about.
It
was
a
battle
to
control
my
own
temper.
That
batter
I
never
won
until
recent
years.
I
now
have
won
that
fight
and
I
consider
it
to
be
the
hardest
struggle
–
it
certainly
was
the
longest
–
of
my
career.
Theodore
Roosevelt
ANSWERS: Someone, somewhere has to have a better answer. Jack Welch
ANXIETY:
The
ancients
looked
at
the
anxious
person
and
prescribed
spiritual
character
change.
Modernity
talks
instead
about
stress‐management
techniques.
Tim
Keller,
The
Reason
for
God
ANXIETY:
We
are
plagued
by
anxiety,
depression,
vague
discontent
and
a
sense
of
inner
emptiness.
Christopher
Lasch
APATHY: Apatheism is a disinclination to care all that much about one’s own religion, and an even
stronger disinclination to care about other people’s.
APPRECIATION:
The
deepest
craving
of
human
nature
is
the
need
to
be
appreciated.
William
James
ART:
A
work
of
art
is
someone’s
act
of
attention,
evoking
ours.
High
Keanner,
literary
scholar
ART:
Art
at
its
most
significant
is
a
distant
Early
Warning
System
that
can
always
be
relied
on
to
tell
the
old
culture
what
is
about
to
happen
to
it.
Marshall
McLuhan
ART:
Art
is
a
collaboration
between
God
and
the
artist,
and
the
less
the
artist
does,
the
better.
Andre
Gide,
Nobel
Prize
winner
in
literature
ART:
Art
is
a
lie
that
makes
us
realize
the
truth.
Pablo
Picasso
ART:
Art
is
not
a
pleasure,
a
solace,
or
an
amusement;
art
is
a
great
matter.
Art
is
an
organ
of
human
life,
transmitting
man’s
reasonable
perception
into
feeling.
Tolstoy
ART:
Art
is
not
what
you
see,
but
what
you
make
others
see.
Edgar
Degas
painter
ART:
Art
should
cause
violence
to
be
set
aside.
Tolstoy
ART:
Art
washes
away
from
the
soul
the
dust
of
everyday
life.
Pablo
Picasso
ART:
I
was
showing
the
America
I
knew
and
observed
to
others
who
might
not
have
noticed.
Norman
Rockwell
ART:
The
aim
of
art
is
to
represent
not
the
outward
appearance
of
things,
but
their
inward
significance.
Aristotle
ART:
The
church
is
not
the
first
place
a
creative
genius
would
look
to
be
trained
in
art.
That
statement
alone
reveals
how
much
Christians
have
abdicated
our
responsibility
to
steward
culture.
Fujimura,
Refractions
ART:
The
first
demand
any
work
of
art
makes
upon
us
is
surrender.
Look.
Listen.
Receive.
Get
yourself
out
of
the
way.
Bruce
Herman,
An
Experiment
in
Criticism
ARTISTS:
Artists
are
a
canary
in
the
cultural
mines.
Marshal
McLuhan
ARTISTS:
Artists
are
often
found
at
the
margins
of
society,
but
they
are,
like
the
shepherds,
often
the
first
to
notice
the
miracles
taking
place
right
in
front
of
us.
Fujimura,
Refractions
ARTISTS:
Artists
smell
the
poisoned
air
and
sing.
Fujimura,
Refractions
ATHEISM: A sort of crutch for those who can’t bear the reality of God. Tomn Stoppard
ATHEISM:
I
want
atheism
to
be
true
.
.
.
It
isn’t
just
that
I
don’t
believe
in
God,
and
naturally,
hope
that
I’m
right
in
my
belief.
I
don’t
want
there
to
be
a
God.
Thomas
Nagel,
philosopher
ATHEISM: There are no gods, no purposes, no goal-directed forces of any kind. There is no life after
death. When I die, I am absolutely certain that I am going to be dead. That’s the end for me. There is
no ultimate foundation for ethics, no ultimate meaning to life, and no free will for humans, either.
William B. Provine, professor of Biological Sciences, Cornell University
ATHEISM:
We
are
here
because
one
odd
group
of
fishes
had
a
peculiar
fin
anatomy
that
could
transform
into
legs
for
terrestrial
creatures,
because
comets
struck
the
earth
and
wiped
out
dinosaurs,
thereby
giving
mammals
a
chance
not
otherwise
available.
.
.
We
may
yearn
for
a
“higher”
answer,
but
none
exists.
Stephen
Jay
Gould
ATHEISM: There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a
dream – a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you, and you are but a thought, a useless
thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities. Mark Twain
ATTENTION SPAN: Edutainment is a combination of education and entertainment that seeks to hold
the interest of our increasingly shorter attention spans.
ATTITUDE: A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens. Michel De
Montaigne
ATTITUDE:
the
greatest
discovery
of
my
generation
is
that
human
beings
can
alter
their
lives
by
altering
their
attitudes
of
mind.
William
James
ATTITUDE:
The
winner’s
edge
is
not
in
a
gifted
birth,
in
a
high
IQ,
or
in
talent.
The
winner’s
edge
is
in
the
attitude,
not
aptitude.
Denis
Waitley,
author
ATTITUDE: Your attitude, not your appitude, will determine your altitude. Zig Zigler
AUTHENTICITY:
To
be
authentic
is
literally
to
be
your
own
author,
to
discover
your
native
energies
and
desires,
and
then
to
find
your
own
way
of
acting
on
them
.
.
.
When
you
write
your
own
life,
you
have
played
the
game
that
was
natural
for
you
to
play.
You
have
kept
your
covenant
with
your
own
promise.
Warren
Bennis
AUTHENTICITY: Authentic leadership combines the quality of reality (things as they really are),
identify (knowing who you really are) integrity (being who you really are), transperancy/vulnerability
(displaying who you really are). Brian Rice
AUTHORIAL
INTENTION:
The
road
to
hell
is
paved
with
authorial
intention.
N.T.
Wright
AUTHORITY:
Authority
without
wisdom
is
like
a
heavy
axe
without
an
edge,
fitter
to
bruise
than
polish.
Anne
Bradstreet
AUTHORITY: Ours is not to question why, ours is but to do or die.
AUTHORITY: Society . . . is out of control because we are systematically destroying all of the
authority and all of the control that our institutions once had. Peter Senge, Rethinking the Future
BABYLON:
We
may
live
in
the
best
Babylon
in
the
world
.
.
.
but
it
is
still
Babylon,
and
we
are
called
to
come
out
of
it.
Tony
Campolo
BANK: A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. Bob Hope
BEAUTY: Beautiful are the things we see, More beautiful those we understand, Most beautiful those
we do not comprehend. Niels Steensen
BEAUTY:
What
is
beautiful
is
good
and
he
who
is
good
will
soon
also
be
beautiful.
Sappho
BEING: Life is a state of mind. “Being There”
BELIEF: Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov
BELIEF: I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. Anselm
BELIEF:
If
you
think
you
can
do
a
thing
or
think
you
can’t
do
a
thing,
you’re
right.
Henry
Ford
BELIEF: One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. John
Stuart Mill
BENEDICTION,
BLESSING:
Long
life.
Honey
in
the
Heart.
No
evil.
And
13
thank‐yous.
A
parting
blessing
of
the
Tzutujil
Indians
of
Guatemala
BIBLE:
No
one
understands
scripture
unless
it
is
brought
home
to
him,
that
is,
unless
he
experiences
it.
Martin
Luther
BIOGRAPHY: There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. Thomas Szasz,
“antipsychiatrist”
BLOGGING:
Very
few
times
in
history
do
we
have
the
opportunity
to
shape
a
new
medium
for
communication.
The
blogosphere
is
one
of
those
rare
opportunities.
Terry
Teachout,
Wall
Street
Journal
BLOGS:
For
the
first
time
ever,
blogs
convert
readers
and
viewers
into
writers.
And
YouTube
turns
them
into
directors.
Seth
Godin,
Meatball
Sundae
BOLDNESS: What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius
in it. Goethe
BOOKS:
A
book
should
serve
as
an
ice‐axe
to
break
the
frozen
sea
within
us.
Franz
Kafka
BOOKS:
A
student
who
does
not
want
his
labor
wasted
must
so
read
and
reread
some
good
writer
that
the
author
is
changed,
as
it
were
into
his
flesh
and
blood.
Martin
Luther
BOOKS:
Books
.
.
.
are
like
lobster
shells,
we
surround
ourselves
with’em,
then
we
grow
out
of’em
and
leave’em
behind,
as
evidence
of
our
earlier
stage
of
development.
Dorothy
Sayers
BOOKS:
Books
are
like
imprisoned
minds
until
someone
takes
them
down
from
a
shelf
and
frees
them.
Samuel
Butler
BOOKS:
Books
are
the
greatest
of
companions.
Theodore
Roosevelt
BOOKS:
If
the
book
we
are
reading
does
not
wake
us,
as
with
a
fist
hammering
on
our
skull,
why
then
do
we
read
it.
Franz
Kafka
BOOKS:
In
times
when
God
seemed
absent
and
life
was
unbearably
lonely,
books
became
my
spiritual
companions.
Books
keep
me
up
late
into
the
night.
Books
give
comfort
in
the
wee
hours
when
sleep
becomes
a
stranger.
They
teach
me
about
people
I
have
never
met
and
ideas
I
have
not
yet
considered.
Books
take
me
to
places
I
may
never
see
and
times
in
history
that
I
cannot
visit.
Their
stories
create
new
landscapes
in
my
imagination.
Rochelle
Melander,
A
Generous
Presence
BOOKS: Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books
that other folks have lent me. Anatole Francois Thibault
BOOKS:
No
furniture
is
so
charming
as
books.
Sydney
Smith
BOOKS:
Reading
is
a
disease
with
me.
Theodore
Roosevelt
BOOKS:
Some
books
are
to
be
tasted,
others
to
be
swallowed,
and
some
few
to
be
chewed
and
digested.
Francis
Bacon,
Essays
BOOKS/LOVE:
But
beware
you
be
not
swallowed
up
in
books!
An
ounce
of
love
is
worth
a
pound
of
knowledge.
John
Wesley
BOSSES:
Employees
don’t
quite
their
companies,
they
quit
their
bosses.
BROKEN: Every business has its broken washroom doors; its misdirections, its policies, procedures and
methods that emphasize and reward wrong behavior, penalize or inhibit right behavior. Peter Drucker
BUSINESS
PURPOSE:
There
is
only
one
valid
definition
of
business
purpose:
to
create
a
customer.
Peter
Drucker
BUSY:
The
Chinese
pictograph
for
busy
is
composed
of
two
characters:
heart
and
killing.
BUSY:
To
allow
oneself
to
be
carried
away
by
a
multitude
of
conflicting
concerns,
to
surrender
to
too
many
demands,
to
commit
oneself
to
too
many
projects,
to
want
to
help
everyone
in
everything,
is
to
succumb
to
violence.
Thomas
Merton
BUSY:
There
is
more
to
life
than
merely
increasing
its
speed.
Gandhi
BUSYNESS:
I
am
so
busy
.
.
.
as
if
our
exhaustion
were
a
trophy,
our
ability
to
withstand
stress
a
mark
of
real
character.
The
busier
we
are,
the
more
important
we
seem
to
ourselves,
and,
we
imagine,
to
others.
Wayne
Mueller,
Sabbath
BUYING:
Buying
is
much
more
American
than
thinking.
Andy
Warhol
CALLING,
PASSION:
Africa!
Africa!
Your
sufferings
have
been
the
theme
that
has
arrested
and
engages
my
heart
–
your
sufferings
no
tongue
can
express;
no
Language
impart.
Wilberforce
CALLING:
For
me
it
was
merely
a
simple
attraction,
a
heartfelt
desire,
a
sort
of
emotional
pull
–
and
the
happy
inability
to
think
of
anything
else.
James
Martin
CALLING:
God
almighty
has
set
before
me
two
great
objects:
the
suppression
of
the
slave
trade
and
the
reformation
of
manners.
Wilberforce
CALLING:
It
is
hoped
and
believed
that
the
Lord
has
raised
you
up
for
the
good
of
His
church
and
for
the
good
of
the
nation.
John
Newton
writing
to
Wilberforce
CAREERS: Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for
opportunities because they now their strengths, their method of work and their values. Peter Drucker,
“Managing Oneself”
CAUTION:
Evolution
favors
the
prudent
neurotic.
Robert
Ornstein,
The
right
Mind
CEILINGS: No organization will rise above the passion of the leader. Ken Blanchard
CELEBRITY:
Shakespeare
divided
great
men
into
three
classes:
those
born
great,
those
who
achieved
greatness,
those
who
had
greatness
thrust
upon
them.
It
never
occurred
to
him
to
mention
those
who
hired
public
relations
experts
and
press
secretaries
to
make
themselves
look
great.
Daniel
Boorstein
CELEBRITY:
Celebrity
is
possibly
the
most
vital
shaping
force
in
our
society.
Richard
Schickel,
movie
critic
CELEBRITY:
No
country
in
the
world
is
so
driven
by
personality,
has
such
a
hunger
to
identify
with
personalities,
larger‐than‐life
personalities
especially
as
America.
Peter
Jennings
CHALLENGED, BEING: Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted
whenever I am contradicted. Emerson
CHAMPIONS:
Champions
aren't
made
in
gyms.
Champions
are
made
from
something
they
have
deep
inside
them‐‐a
desire,
a
dream,
a
vision.
Muhammad
Ali
CHANGE: The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change too little. Max
Lerner
CHANGE: In the digital era, change is not only the constant, it is the organizing principle and the
foundation from which we build. No wonder we feel the turbulence of vertigo. Rex Miller, The
Millennium Matrix
CHANGE: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world,
indeed it’s the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
CHANGE:
Never
doubt
that
a
small
group
of
thoughtful,
committed
citizens
can
change
the
world.
Indeed,
it’s
the
only
thing
that
ever
has.
Margaret
Mead
CHANGE:
Only
those
most
adaptive
to
change
will
survive.
Darwin
CHANGE: the future is now. Our world has changed. Even the dynamics of change have changed – and
like it or not, we are all along for the ride. Rex Miller
CHANGE:
The
largest
enemy
of
change
and
leadership
isn’t
a
“no.”
It’s
a
“not
yet.”
“Not
yet”
is
the
safest,
easiest
way
to
forestall
change.
Seth
Godin,
Tribes
CHANGE:
To
exist
is
to
change,
to
change
is
to
mature,
to
mature
is
to
go
on
creating
oneself
endlessly.
Henri
Bergson,
philosopher
CHANGE: Unless man quickly learns to control the rate of change in his personal affairs as well as
society at large, we are doomed to massive adaptational breakdown. Alvin Toffler
CHANGE: We are at that very point in teime when a 400 year old age is dying and another is struggling
to be born – a shifting of culture, science, society and institutions enormously greater than the world
has ever experienced. Dee Hock, the Trillion Dollar Vision
CHANGE: We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
CHANGE: Be the change you wish to see in the world. Gandhi
CHANGE:
Change
almost
never
fails
because
it’s
too
early.
It
almost
always
fails
because
it’s
too
late.
Seth
Godin,
Tribes
CHANGE: The driving reality of change requires the ability to adapt quickly. Adaptation requires that
leaders continually scan the horizon; adjust to the ever-changing landscape, and reframe structure,
mission, and resources to current realities.
CHANGE: We are, at this very moment, passing through a change of age. Beneath a change of age lies a
change of thought. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the Phenomenon of Man
Change:
When
systems
and
structures
are
forced
to
undergo
change,
it
creates
enormous
tension
and
insecurity,
and
often
those
people
who
call
attention
to
these
realities
become
the
object
of
people’s
fears
and
insecurities.
It
is
easier
to
shoot
the
messenger
than
to
be
present
to
the
complex
realities
that
are
being
played
out
around
us.
Tim
Keel,
Intuitive
Leadership
CHARACTER, PERSEVERANCE: Evil cannot be done away with through one spasm of virtue. Theodore
Roosevelt
CHARACTER:
Character
is
destiny.
Heraclitus
CHARACTER:
Character
is
simply
habit
long
continued.
Plutarch,
Morals
CHARACTER:
first
say
to
yourself
what
you
would
be;
and
then
do
what
you
have
to
do.
Epictetus,
Discourses
CHARACTER: I have met with no character equal in any degree to his Lordship, his penetration is
quick, judgment clear, wisdom great and his decisions correct and decided – nor does he in company
appear to bear any weight on his mind, so cheerful and pleasant, that it is a happiness to be about his
hand. John Scott writing about Horatio Nelson
CHARACTER: In the leadership arena, character counts. I am not saying this casually. My convictions
about character based leadership come from years of studies, observations, and interviews with
leaders and with the people near them . . . I’ve never seen a person derailed from leadership positions
for lack of technical competence. But I’ve seen lots of peole derailed for lack of judgment and
character. Warren Bennis
CHARACTER: It is character thorugh which leadership is exercised, it is character that sets the
example. Peter Drucker
CHARACTER:
it
is
not
merely
the
thing
that
is
said,
but
the
man
that
says
it
that
counts,
the
character
which
breathes
through
the
sentences.
William
Pitt
the
Elder
CHARACTER: Man’s character is his fate. Heraclitus
CHARACTER:
Most
of
all,
I
believe
whatever
value
my
service
may
have,
comes
even
more
from
what
I
am
than
from
what
I
do.
Theodore
Roosevelt
CHARACTER: No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
CHARACTER:
No
man
can
lead
a
public
career
really
worth
leading,
no
man
can
act
with
rugged
independence
in
serious
crises,
nor
afford
to
make
powerful
and
unscrupulous
foes,
if
he
is
himself
vulnerable
in
his
private
character
.
.
.
He
must
be
clean
of
life
so
that
he
can
laugh
when
his
public
or
his
private
record
is
searched.
Theodore
Roosevelt
CHARACTER: One quality cannot be learned, one qualification that the manager (leader) cannot
acquire but must bring with him. It is not genius; it is character. Peter Drucker
CHARACTER:
Only
perform
such
acts
as
you
will
not
regret
later.
Pythagoras
CHARACTER:
Our
aim
is
not
to
know
what
courage
is
but
to
be
courageous,
not
to
know
what
justice
is
but
to
be
just,
in
the
same
way
as
we
want
to
be
healthy
rather
than
to
ascertain
what
health
is,
and
to
be
in
good
condition
of
body,
rather
than
to
ascertain
what
good
bodily
condition
is.
Aristotle
CHARACTER:
Virtue
is
a
state
of
war,
and
to
live
in
it
we
have
always
to
combat
with
ourselvesJean‐
Jacques
Rousseau
CHARACTER:
We
are
to
have
a
character
that
invites
others
to
see
the
goodness
of
Christ
and
to
be
a
character
that
intrigues
and
compels
others
to
discover
what
it
means
to
be
forgiven
and
set
free
to
live
with
passion
and
joy.
Dan
Allender,
Leading
Character
CHARACTER: What is character but the determination of incident, what is incident but the illustration
of character? Henry James
CHARACTER: what you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying. Ralph Waldo Emerson
CHARACTER: You can’t make a good deal with a bad person. Jimmy buffett
CHARACTER: Character is a word that describes the default me. The person I am over the long haul in
life. The person who emerges in the most difficult, challenging moments . . . Character then, is the
deep current of what we are day after day after day. Gordon Macdonald
CHARACTER: The virtue that is worth having is the virtue that can sustain the rough shock of actual
living. Theodore Roosevelt
CHARISMA:
Dynamic
leaders
are
the
spark,
the
flame
that
ignites
action.
With
vision,
they
generate
and
focus
power
.
.
.
In
their
passion,
their
expansiveness,
their
drive,
dynamic
leaders
are
prone
to
excess:
a
deal
too
large,
a
bottom
line
too
important,
a
cause
too
righteous,
an
image
too
pure,
a
lifestyle
too
rich,
an
enemy
too
hated,
a
bridge
too
far.
Ira
Chaleff,
The
Courageous
Follower
CHARISMA: For revivalists, as for actors, authority on stage derived not from erudition, nor from
connections to elite society or respected institutions but from charisma – from their popularity as
speakers, from their ability to personally connect with the audiences, from their authenticity and sincerity,
and from the sill of their performances. Jeanne Kilde
CHESS: Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the engame like a
machine. Rudolf Spielmann, Austrian
CHILDREN:
Children
are
better
than
books.
Theodore
Roosevelt
CHILDREN: Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, When they think their children are naïve.
Ogden Nash
CHOICES:
Externals
are
not
under
my
control;
moral
choice
is
under
my
control.
Where
am
I
to
look
for
the
good
and
evil?
Within
me,
in
that
which
is
my
own.
Epictetus,
Discourses
CHOICES:
Life
is
the
sum
of
all
your
choices.
Camus
CHRIST: His teaching, even mangled and broken, have an incredible power to disrupt human systems,
including the ones that claim to own him. Dallas Willard, Knowing Christ Today
CHRIST: I believe because He fulfills none of my dreams, because He is in every respect the opposite
of what He would be if I could have made Him in my own image. W.H. Auden
CHRIST: Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble
ourselves without despair. Blaise Pascal
CHRIST:
Tell
me
your
Christology
and
I
will
tell
you
who
you
are.
Karl
Barth,theologian
CHRISTENDOM: The Christendom paradigm is coming apart at the seams. All the institutions and
patterns of life that grew up during Christendom are having their foundations shaken . . . We live in the
memory of great ways of understanding how to be a church and to be in mission. Those memories
surround us like ruins of an ancient civilization. Loren Mead, the Once and Future Church
CHRISTIANITY:
If
this
is
madness,
I
hope
he
will
bite
us
all.
A
friend
writing
about
Wilberforce’s
conversion
to
Christianity
CHRISTIANITY:
The
Christian
ideal
was
not
been
tried
and
found
wanting.
It
has
been
found
difficult
and
left
untried.
G.K.
Chesterton
CHRISTIANS:
Christians
are
people
who
let
the
reality
of
Jesus
change
everything
about
who
they
are,
how
they
see,
and
how
they
live.
Tim
Keller,
The
Reason
for
God
CHURCH
AND
STATE:
Mixing
the
church
and
state
is
like
mixing
ice
cream
with
cow
manure.
It
may
not
do
much
to
the
manure,
but
it
sure
messes
up
the
ice
cream.
Tony
Campolo
CHURCH:
I
have
been
learning
a
beautiful
and
harsh
truth,
that
the
Christian
faith
does
not
separate
us
from
the
world
but
immerses
us
in
it;
that
the
church,
therefore,
is
not
a
fortress
set
apart
from
the
city,
but
a
follower
of
Jesus
who
loved,
worked,
struggled
and
died
in
the
midst
of
the
city.
Archbishop
Oscar
Romero,
Martyred
CIRCUMSTANCES:
Circumstances
rule
men
and
not
men
circumstances.
Herodotus
CLUELESS:
Unfortunately,
the
disciples
were
most
often
the
“duh!‐ciples”
because
they
just
didn’t
get
it.
Len
Sweet
COACHING: A whole cottage industry has grown u around the teaching that good leaders ought to be
good coaches. But that thinking assumes that a single person can both inspire the troops and impart
necessary skills. Of course it is possible that great leaders may also be great coaches, but we see that
only occasionally. Rob Gofee and Gareth Jones
COMEDY:
God
writes
a
lot
of
comedy.
Garrison
Keillor
COMFORT ZONES: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t
do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the
trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
COMMITMENT:
At
the
moment
of
commitment,
the
universe
conspires
to
assist
you.
Goethe
COMMITMENT:
I
saw
the
shallowness
of
my
commitment.
I
saw
the
incompleteness
of
my
love.
Mine
was
a
negotiated
abandonment,
and
that
meant
it
was
not
a
true
abandonment
at
all.
Anne
Rice,
Called
out
of
Darkness
COMMITMENT:
If
your
organization
requires
success
before
commitment,
it
will
never
have
either.
Seth
Godin,
Tribes
COMMITMENT:
Life
is
a
great
adventure,
and
you
cannot
with
the
great
prizes
unless
you
are
willing
to
run
certain
risks,
unless
you
are
willing
to
pay
certain
penalties.
Theodore
Roosevelt
COMMITTEE: A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. Sir
Barnett Cocks
COMMITTEE: A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can
be done. Fred Allen
COMMUNICATION,
DISTORTION:
I
am
interested
in
making
up
a
good
case
for
distortion,
as
I
am
coming
to
believe
it
is
the
only
way
to
make
people
see.
Flannery
O’Conner
Communication:
Information
is
“giving
out”
while
communication
is
“getting
through.”
Sydney
Harris
COMMUNICATION:
The
orator
is
the
embodiment
of
the
passions
of
the
multitude.
Before
he
can
inspire
them
with
any
emotion
he
must
be
swayed
by
it
himself.
Before
he
can
move
their
tears
his
own
must
flow.
To
convince
them
he
must
himself
believe.
Winston
Churchill
COMMUNICATION: To relate what we witness and try to make sense for others, of that long ago event,
is what shepherding is all about. It is, I believe, job enough to keep us all meaningfully occupied for
the rest of our lives. Jerry Levin
COMMUNICATION:
You
can
have
brilliant
ideas,
but
if
you
can’t
get
those
ideas
across,
they
don’t
do
anybody
any
good.
Lee
Iacocca.
COMMUNICATION: I have been much concerned that in this world we have so largely lost the ability to
talk with one another . . . We have had neither the time nor the skill nor the dedication to tell one
another what we have learned, not to listen, nor to hear . . . We hunger for…the rare words and acts
that harmonize simplicity and truth.
COMMUNICATION: Nearly all leaders are eloquent in voice, and many are eloquent in writing as well.
They do not merely have a promising story; they can tell it persuasively. A mark of the future leader is
a generous degree of linguistic intelligence – the capacity and the inclination to use words well. When
such linguistic intelligence is yoked to a considerable personal intelligence, one has the makings of an
effective communicator and, perhaps a promising leader. Howard Gardner, Leading Minds
COMMUNICATORS:
What
orators
lack
in
depth,
they
make
up
in
length.
Charles
de
Montesquieu
Community:
He
who
loves
his
dream
of
community
more
than
the
Christian
community
itself
becomes
a
destroyer
of
the
latter;
even
though
his
personal
intentions
may
be
ever
so
honest
and
earnest
and
sacrificial.
Dietrich
Bonhoeffer
COMMUNITY: It is distinctive of matured technological man that he must and can maintain a large
number of contacts, which are decently personal and yet relatively noncommittal. Walter Ong,
Presence of the Word
COMPASSION:
It
is
the
task
of
a
good
man
to
help
those
in
misfortune.
Sophocles
COMPASSION:
No
act
of
kindness,
no
matter
how
small
is
ever
wasted.
Aseop,
Fables
COMPETITION: If you work for the government, it’s dog eat dog. If you work in the corporate world it’s
just the other way around. Anonymous radio announcer
COMPLACENCY, ENTITLEMENT: The moment you believe you are entitled to something is exactly
when you are ripe to lose it to someone who is fighting harder.
COMPLACENCY: I’ve seen – both in myself and my competition – how satisfaction can lead to a lack of
vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities. Success and satisfaction may be our goals, but
they can also lead to bad habits that will impede greater success and satisfaction. Gary Kasparov
COMPLACENCY: Self-satisfaction accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies.
Webster Dictionary
COMPROMISE:
Every
civilization
finds
it
necessary
to
negotiate
compromises
with
its
own
values.
Israeli
Prime
Minister
Golda
Meir
CONCLUSIONS: True conclusions cannot come from faulty assumptions.
CONFIDENCE:
We
ought
to
do
everything
both
cautiously
and
confidently
at
the
same
time.
Epicetus,
Discourses
CONFLICT:
To
be
human
is
to
be
in
conflict,
to
offend
and
to
be
offended.
John
Howard
Yoder
CONFORMITY: it’s impossible to stand out when your goal in life is to fit in.
CONFUSION:
Life
is
one
great
big
blooming,
buzzing
confusion.
William
James
and
David
Naugle
CONSEQUENCES:
When
from
an
evil
action
you
have
gained
profit,
know
that
you
have
married
misery.
Menander
CONSISTENCY: One face to the world, another at home makes for misery. Amy Vanderbilt
CONSULTANT: The client pays for the consultant’s mistake. The consultant gets no credit when the
company does well. Peter Drucker
CONSUMERISM: Buying is purposive activity motivated and directed by the belief that the
consequences of buying make life that much happier. John O’Shaughnessy
CONSUMERISM:
Consumerism
focuses
entirely
on
this
world
and
its
pleasures,
so
that
death
itself
is
the
ultimate
disproof
of
all
that
consumers
hold
dear.
It
may
be
for
this
reason
that
in
our
era
death
is
the
great
taboo
topic
that
people
rarely
talk
about.
Gordon
Wenham
CONSUMERISM:
Know
not
to
revere
human
things
too
much.
Aeschylus
CONSUMERISM:
The
idea
that
Christianity
and
consumerism
are
completely
compatible
.
.
.
is
the
great
insanity
of
our
times.
Win
Butler
CONSUMERISM:
How
many
things
there
are
which
I
do
not
need.
Socrates
upon
seeing
an
auction
at
a
marketplace.
CONTENTMENT:
I
make
myself
rich
by
making
my
wants
few.
Thoreau
CONTROL:
Sooner
or
later
we
will
come
to
the
edge
of
all
that
we
can
control
and
find
life,
waiting
for
us
there.
Rachel
Naomi
Remem,
My
Grandfather’s
Blessing
CONTROL:
There
is
something
which
unties
magic
and
applied
science
while
separating
both
from
the
wisdom
of
earlier
ages.
For
the
wisdom
of
old
the
cardinal
problem
had
been
how
to
conform
the
soul
to
reality,
and
the
solution
and
been
knowledge,
self‐discipline,
and
virtue.
For
magic
and
applied
science
alike
the
problem
is
how
to
subdue
reality
to
the
wishes
of
men:
the
solution
is
a
technique
and
both,
in
the
practice
of
this
technique,
are
ready
to
do
things
hitherto
regarded
as
disgusting
and
impious.
C.S.
Lewis
CONVENTIONALITY: The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. John
Kenneth Galbraith
CONVERSATION: A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good
conversations; due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. Truman Capote
CONVERSATION: Conversation is not simple. Good conversation is rare. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre,
Caring for Words
CONVERSATIONS:
What
truly
matters
in
our
lives
is
measured
through
conversation.
Peter
Block,
Stewardship:
Choosing
Service
Over
Self‐Interest
CONVERSATIONS:
A
conversation
is
a
dialogue,
not
a
monologue.
That’s
why
there
are
so
few
good
conversations:
due
to
scarcity,
two
intelligent
talkers
seldom
meet.
Truman
Capote
CONVERSATIONS:
I
have
measured
out
my
life
with
coffee
spoons.
T.
S.
Eliot
CONVICTION
OF
SINFULNESS:
It
was
not
so
much
the
fear
of
punishment
by
which
I
was
affected,
as
a
sense
of
my
great
sinfulness
in
having
so
long
neglected
the
unspeakable
mercies
of
my
God
and
Saviour;
and
such
was
the
effect
which
this
thought
produce,
that
for
months
I
was
in
a
state
of
the
deepest
depression,
from
strong
convictions
of
my
guilt.
Indeed
nothing
which
I
have
ever
read
in
the
accounts
of
others,
exceeded
what
I
then
felt.
Wilberforce
COUNTER‐CULTURAL:
If
Jesus
preached
in
New
York
what
he
preached
in
Galilee,
we’d
lay
him
in
his
grave
again.
(Woody
Guthrie)
I
guess
that’s
why
we
hear
a
lot
about
God’s
blessing
and
God
expanding
our
territory,
but
very
little
about
a
cross
or
love
for
enemies.
Shane
Claiborne
COUNTER‐CULTURAL:
The
greatest
paradox
and
humor
of
God’s
audacious
power;
a
stuttering
prophet
will
be
the
voice
of
God,
a
barren
old
lady
will
become
the
mother
of
a
nation,
a
shepherd
boy
will
become
their
king,
and
a
homeless
baby
will
lead
them.
Shane
Claiborne
COURAGE:
The
bravest
are
surely
those
who
have
the
clearest
vision
of
what
is
before
them,
glory
and
danger
alike,
and,
nothwithstanding,
go
out
to
face
it.
Thucydides,
the
History
of
the
Peloponnesian
War
COURAGE:
Courage
and
perseverance
have
a
magical
talisman,
before
which
difficulties
disappear
and
obstacles
vanish
into
air.
John
Quincy
Adams
COURAGE:
Courage
is
resistance
to
fear,
mastery
of
fear;
not
absence
of
fear.
Mark
Twain
COURAGE:
Courage
is
rightly
esteemed
to
be
the
first
of
human
qualities
because
it
is
the
quality
which
guarantees
all
others.
Winston
Churchill
COURAGE:
Courage
is
the
ladder
on
which
all
the
other
virtues
mount.
Clare
Booth
Luce
COURAGE:
Courage
is
what
it
takes
to
stand
up
and
speak;
courage
is
also
what
it
takes
to
sit
down
and
listen.
Winston
Churchill
COURAGE:
Fortune
is
not
on
the
side
of
the
fainthearted.
Sophocles,
Phaedra
COURAGE:
God
will
not
have
his
work
manifest
by
cowards.
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson
COURAGE: History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be
lived again. Maya Angelou
COURAGE: Tell a man he is brace, and you help him become so. Thomas Carlyle
COURAGE: The task of leaders is to say no to what is wrong and evil. I wish I could have been more
courageous . . . I played a very large part in bringing about the demise of a firm that I had been a large
part of for 23 years, and that I loved. William Durbin, chairman of the Board for the law firm of Justin
and Gilchirst
COURAGE:
The
ultimate
measure
of
a
man
is
not
where
he
stands
in
moments
of
comfort
and
convenience, but
where
he
stands
at
times
of
challenge
and
controversy.
Martin
Luther
King,
Jr.
COURAGE:
What
counts
is
not
necessarily
the
size
of
the
dog
in
the
fight‐‐
it's
the
size
of
the
fight
in
the
dog.
Dwight
D.
Eisenhower
COURAGE:
When
the
Nazis
came
to
get
the
Communists,
I
was
silent,
because
I
was
not
a
communist.
When
they
came
to
get
the
Socialists,
I
was
silent.
When
they
came
to
get
the
Catholics
I
was
silent.
When
they
came
to
get
the
Jews,I
was
silent.
And
when
they
came
to
get
me,
there
was
no
one
left
to
speak.
Martin
Niemoeller,
Confessing
Pastor
of
the
Lutheran
Church
COURAGE: You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to
look fear in the face. You must do the things which you think you cannot. Eleanor Roosevelt
COURAGE:
Always
do
the
things
you
fear
the
most.
Courage
is
an
acquired
taste,
like
caviar.
Erica
Jong
CREATIVITY,
CHAOS:
You
must
harbor
chaos
if
you
wish
to
give
birth
to
a
dancing
star.
Friedrich
Nietzsche
CREATIVITY:
Creativity
is
about
coming
out
of
hiding
and
exposing
yourself.
Practicing
creativity
is
about
humiliating
yourself
in
public.
Doug
Hall,
Jump
Start
Your
Business
Brain
CREATIVITY:
Creativity
is
just
connecting
things.
Steve
Jobs
CREATIVITY: The failure to think creatively is as much self-imposed as it is imposed by the parameters
of our jobs and our lives. “What if” often leads to “Why not” (or what now) and at that point we must
summon our courage and find out. Gary Kasparov
CREDIBILITY: Here is a great question to ask: Why would anyone want to be led by you?
CREDIBILITY:
The
word
of
command
is
useless
in
the
fight
unless
a
reasonable
number
of
those
to
whom
it
is
uttered
not
only
listen
to
it
but
act
upon
it;
and
the
man
who
utters
it
will
not
find
that
the
other
men
to
whom
he
utters
it
will
pay
much
heed
to
it
unless
they
know
that
he
is
prepared
himself
to
show
the
way.
Theodore
Roosevelt
CRISIS: A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Dick Clark, CEO Merck
CRISIS: Moments of crisis produce a redoubling of life in man. Chateaubriand
CRISIS:
The
soul
gets
by
on
a
series
of
crises.
E.
Stanley
Jones
CRITICISM: He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. Abraham Lincoln
CRITICISM: it is better to go steadily in the discharge of duty to the best of our ability, leaving all eles
to the calmer judgment of the future and to a kinder Province.
CRITICISM: No one ever does anything worthwhile for which they are not criticized.
CRITICISM:
Nothing
is
more
helpful
than
criticism,
provided
the
criticism
is
in
good
faith
.
.
.
that
is,
it
is
honest,
intelligent,
and
meant
to
aid
instead
of
hamper.
Theodore
Roosevelt
CRITICISM: Swim up stream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. But be prepared for a
lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you’re headed the wrong way. Sam Walton
CRITICISM:
The
trouble
with
most
of
us
is
that
we
would
rather
be
ruined
by
praise
than
saved
by
criticism.
Norman
Vincent
Peale
CRITICISM:
There
are
many
occasions
when
the
highest
praise
one
can
receive
is
the
attack
of
some
given
scoundrel.
Theodore
Roosevelt
CRITICIZED, BEING: Ronald Reagan – called old, senile, not grasping the complexities of global issues;
Fred Astair – can’t act, can’t sing, slightly bald, can dance a little; Lucille Ball – don’t pay attention to
her. She’s great at parties, but I can’t see any future for her in movies; Clark Gable - will fall on his
face in his new role in Gone With the Wind; Elvis Presley – you ain’t going nowhere son, you ought to
go back to driving a truck; Albert Einsten – shows no promise; Charles Lindbergh – He will never make
it across the Atlantic, he’s doomed.
CRITICS:
Critics
are
like
pigs
at
the
pastry
cart.
John
Updike
Crosses:
The
people
who
bear
crosses
are
working
with
the
grain
of
the
universe.
John
Howard
Yoder
CULTURE: Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work
with what you’ve got.
CULTURE: Disciples do not follow the gospel in a vacuum but wend their Christian way through
particular times and places, each with its own problems and possibilities. Kevin Vanhoozer.
CULTURE: My first language is broadcast, my second is print, and my most recent is digital. The
difference between my approach to using the computer and my children’s is obvious . . . I work with
my computer, but my children live with it. Rex Miller, The Millennium Matrix
CULTURE: the ideal of culture as thanksgiving was replaced by culture as a statement of autonomy.
Theodore Turnau
CURIOSITY:
Remaining
receptive
to
unpackaged
reality
will
inolve
vigilance
and
curiosity
and
determined
hospitality.
It
will
require
an
eye
and
an
ear
for
new
stories.
David
Dark,
Sacred
of
Questioning
Everything
CURIOSITY:
The
important
thing
is
not
to
stop
questioning.
Curiosity
has
its
own
reason
for
existing.
One
cannot
help
but
be
in
awe
when
he
contemplates
the
mysteries
of
eternity,
of
life,
of
the
marvelous
structure
of
reality.
It
is
enough
if
one
tries
merely
to
comprehend
a
little
of
this
mystery
every
day.
Never
lose
a
holy
curiosity.
CUSTOMERS:
The
paramount
job
of
every
single
employee
in
an
organization
is
to,
directly
or
indirectly,
get
and
keep
customers.
Jeffrey
Fox,
How
to
Become
a
Rainmaker
CYNICISM: I am not at all cynical, I’m only experienced – that’s pretty much the same thing. Oscar
Wilde
CYNICISM: If I am saved from cynicism at all it is by some sense of personal loyalty to the spirit and
genius of Christ. Reinhold Niebuhr
CYNICISM: No matter how cynical you get, it’s never enough to keep up. Lily Tomlin
CYNICISM: Reality’s a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there. John Barth
CYNICISM: Cynicism dominates the assumptions of our political and cultural life. We not only do not
recognize the cynicism; we confuse it with democratic deliberation and political wisdom. Jeffrey
Goldfarb
CYNICISM: No cynicism can outdo life. Anton Chekov
DARK SIDE: Leaders . . . often bring with that the baggage of being a loner, a need for achievement and
recognition, the instincts for competition, a tendency toward political maneuvering, the quest for power or
control, the fear of losing that control, and the insecurity of not being able to live up to their advertising.
Rex Miller, The Millenium Matrix
DEAD
HORSE:
When
you
discover
you
are
riding
a
dead
horse.
Dismount.
Dakota
Indian
proverb
DEATH:
Dying
is
about
becoming
more
human.
DEBATE:
it
is
good
to
rub
and
polish
our
brain
against
that
of
others.
Michel
de
Montaigne
DECEIT: Argument turns into banter, analysis into fatuous assertion. George Steiner
DECISION MAKING: Few things are less likely to succeed than hasty person decisions. And the same
applies to most of the other top-management decisions. Peter Drucker
DECISION MAKING: I’ve learned one thing in politics. You don’t make a decision until you have to.
Margaret Thatcher
DECISION MAKING: If there is no benefit to making the decision at the moment and no penalty in
delaying it, use that time to improve yoru evaluation, to gther more information, and to examine other
options. Gary Kasparov
DECISION MAKING: Opposite paris working in harmony; this has become a theme of our quest to
perfect decision-making. Calculation and evaluation. Patience and opportunism, intuition and analysis,
style and objectivity…Success comes from balancing these forces and harnessing their inherent power.
Gary Kasparov
DECISION MAKING: Without a decision maker, you’ll never make a decision. Peter Drucker
DECISIONS: Any human decision or action starts to get old the moment it has been made. Peter
Drucker
DECISIONS:
If
you
board
the
wrong
train,
it
is
no
use
running
along
the
corridor
in
the
other
direction.
Dietrich
Bonhhoeffer
DECISIONS: Make good decisions and you’ll succeed, make bad ones and you’ll fail. Gary Kasparov
DECISIONS:
the
most
important
decisions
we
make
in
life
are
not
made
by
post‐Enlightenment
left‐
brain
rationality
alone.
N.
T.
Wright
DECLINE: Every institution is vulnerable, no matter how great. No matter how much you’ve achieved,
no matter how far you’ve gone, no matter how much power you’ve garnered, you are vulnerable to
decline. Jim Collins, How the Mighty Fall
DECLINE: I’ve concluded there are more ways to fall than to become great. . Jim Collins, How the
Mighty Fall
DECLINE: while no leader can single-handedly build an enduring great company, the wrong leader
vested with power can almost single-handedly bring a company down. . Jim Collins, How the Mighty
Fall
DEDICATION,
UNDERSTANDING:
It
takes
a
passionate
commitment
to
really
thoroughly
understand
something,
chew
it
up,
not
just
quickly
swallow
it.
Most
people
don’t
take
the
time
to
do
that.
Steve
Jobs
DEEP GENERALIST: Never have I seen or read of a man with such an amazing array of interests.
Edumund Morris speaking about Theordore Roosevelt
DEFINE REALITY: The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. Max DePree, in The Art of
Leadership
DEFINITION: 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. John Kenneth Galbraith
DEMOCRACY: As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of
democracy. Abraham Lincoln
DEPRESSION:
People
have
always
been
depressed,
but
–
during
the
early
eighties
–
there
just
seemed
to
be
this
overwhelming
public
consensus
that
being
depressed
was
the
most
normal
thing
anyone
could
be.
In
fact,
being
depressed
sort
of
meant
you
were
smart.
Chuck
Klosterman,
Sex,
Drugs
and
Cocoa
Puffs
DESIRE:
If
you
don’t
get
what
you
want,
it
is
a
sign
either
that
you
did
not
seriously
want
it,
or
that
you
tried
to
bargain
over
the
price.
Rudyard
Kipling
DESIRE:
Lord,
grant
that
I
may
always
desire
more
than
I
can
accomplish.
Michelangelo
DESIRING
GOD:
We
usually
begin
the
journey
toward
God
thinking,
“What
do
I
have
to
do
to
get
this
or
that
from
him?”
But
eventually
we
have
to
begin
thinking,
“What
do
I
have
to
do
to
get
him?”
If
you
don’t
make
that
transition,
you
will
never
actually
meet
the
real
God,
but
will
only
end
up
believing
in
some
caricature
version
of
him.
Tim
Keller,
The
Reason
for
God
DESTINATION: Light at the end of the tunnel, hell, we don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know
where the tunnel is. President Johnson talking about the Vietnam war
DETERMINATION; What most of us lack is not knowledge of the faith but the spiritual determination to
carry out what we already know, regardless of the personal consequences. James Houston
DETERMINATION: Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any
other one thing. Abraham Lincoln
DETERMINATION: We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. Helen Keller
DIALOGUE:
Crushing
truths
are
lightened
by
their
acknowledgement.
Remember
again.
Remember
rightly.
Re‐vision.
David
Dark,
Sacred
of
Questioning
Everything
DIALOGUE:
Have
more
talk.
Shakespeare
DIALOGUE:
To
get
others
to
come
into
our
ways
of
thinking,
we
must
go
over
to
theirs;
and
it
is
necessary
to
follow,
in
order
to
lead.
William
Hazlitt
DIALOGUE:
Whoever
is
afraid
of
dialogue
is
hiding
something.
Sheikh
Reda
Shata
DIFFICULTIES:
It
is
difficulties
that
show
what
men
are.
Epicetus,
Discourses
DIFFICULTY:
Every
difficulty
slurred
over
will
be
a
ghost
to
disturb
your
repose
later
on.
Frederic
Chopin
DIFFICULTY: The period of great gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s
life. 14th Dalai Lama
DIGNITY:
Our
lives
are
of
great
worth
if
we
accept
with
good
grace
the
situation
Providence
places
us
in
and
go
on
living
lovingly.
Takashi
Nagai
DISCERNMENT: Frivolity, inexperience, simplicity believe everything that is said; vanity, conceit, selfsatisfaction believe everything flattering that is said; envy, spite, corruption believe everything evil
that is said; mistrust believes nothing at all. Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love
DISCERNMENT:
One
recognizes
one’s
course
by
discovering
the
paths
that
stray
from
it.
Albert
Camus
DISCIPLINE, INTENTIONALITY: If discipline sounds dull, or even impossible in today’s fast-paced
world, you should take a few minutes to consider how you might benefit from targeting just a few
small areas of your life for efficiency. Having a good work ethic doesn’t mean being a fanatic, it means
being aware and then taking action. Gary Kasparov
DISCIPLINE:
Discipline
is
doing
what
you
really
don’t
want
to
do
so
that
you
can
do
what
you
really
want
to
do.
John
Maxwell
DISCIPLINE:
If
you
wish
to
be
a
good
reader,
read;
if
you
wish
to
be
a
good
writer,
write.
Epictetus,
Discourses
DISCIPLINE: Discipline is all about cultivating habits that become part of your lifestyle. Robin Crow
DISCIPLINE: No life can ever grow great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined. Harry Emerson
Fosdick
DISCIPLINE: You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of
your life. Herbert Bayard Swope
DISCOVERY:
One
does
not
discover
new
continents
without
consenting
to
lose
sight
of
the
shore
for
a
very
long
time.
Andre
Gide
DISILLUSIONMENT: Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a
people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the
world could offer. Daniel Boorstein, The Image
DISSATISFACTION,
OF
SELF:
We
are
never
so
much
disposed
to
quarrel
with
others
as
when
we
are
dissatisfied
with
ourselves.
William
Hazlitt
DOUBT,
ABOUT
ATHEISM:
The
horrid
doubt
always
arises
whether
the
convictions
of
man’s
mind,
which
has
been
developed
from
the
mind
of
the
lower
animals,
are
of
any
value
or
at
all
trustworthy.
Charles
Darwin
DOUBT:
A
man
was
meant
to
be
doubtful
about
himself,
but
undoubting
about
truth.
This
has
been
exactly
reversed.
We
are
on
the
road
to
producing
a
race
of
men
too
mentally
modest
to
believe
in
the
multiplication
table.
Chesterton
DREAM: You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C.S. Lewis
DREAMS:
However
vague
they
are,
dreams
have
a
way
of
concealing
themselves
and
leave
us
no
peach
until
they
are
translated
into
reality,
like
seeds
germinating
underground,
sure
to
sprout
in
their
search
for
the
sunlight.
Lin
Yutang
DUALISMS:
Our
mind
is
capable
of
passing
beyond
the
dividing
line
we
have
drawn
for
it.
Beyond
the
pairs
of
opposites
of
which
the
world
consists,
other,
new
insights
begin.
Hermann
Hesse
DUMBED-DOWN: Accessble is not the same as dumbed-down. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for
Words
EASTER:
Easter
means
that
in
a
world
where
injustice,
violence
and
degradation
are
endemic,
God
is
not
prepared
to
tolerate
such
things
–
and
that
we
will
work
and
plan,
with
all
the
energy
of
God,
to
implement
victory
of
Jesus
over
them
all.
Tim
Keller,
The
Reason
for
God
ECONOMISTS: Economists are people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work
in theory. Ronald Reagan.
Eden:
Even
if
we
were
to
find
another
Eden
we
would
not
be
fit
to
enjoy
it
perfectly
nor
stay
in
it
forever.
Henry
Van
Dyke
EDEN:
Even
should
we
find
another
Eden,
we
would
not
be
fit
to
enjoy
it
perfectly
nor
stay
in
it
forever.
Henry
van
Dyke
EDUCATION:
An
education
isn't
how
much
you
have
committed
to
memory,
or
even
how
much
you
know.
It's
being
able
to
differentiate
between
what
you
know
and
what
you
don't.
Anatole
France
EDUCATION: Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats
EFFECTIVENESS:
Effective
leaders
–
and
effective
people
understand
that
there
is
no
difference
between
becoming
an
effective
leader
and
becoming
a
fully
integrated
human
being.
Warren
Bennis
EFFECTIVENESS: An effective leader is not someone who is loved or admired, buts someone whose
followers do the right things. Popularity is not leadership; results are. Mentoring is all about
reproducing your values (and results) in others. Pat Mesiti
EFFECTIVENESS:
Effectiveness
is,
after
all,
not
a
subject,
but
a
self‐discipline.
Peter
Drucker
EFFORT:
I
wish
to
preach,
not
the
doctrine
of
ignoble
ease,
but
the
doctrine
of
the
strenuous
life,
the
life
of
toil
and
effort,
of
labor
and
strife;
to
preach
that
highest
form
of
success
which
comes,
not
to
the
man
who
desires
mere
easy
peace,
but
to
the
man
who
does
not
shrink
from
danger,
from
hardship,
or
from
bitter
toil,
and
who
out
of
these
wins
the
splendid
ultimate
triumph.
Theodore
Roosevelt
EGO: Beware small generals.
EGO:
Remember,
you
are
just
an
extra
in
everyone
else’s
play.
F.D.R.
EGO: The presence of a gargantuan personal ego contributes significantly to the failure of companies.
Charismatic leaders succeed admirably in achieving their personal ambitions, but they fall short when it
comes to building and sustaining great companies. Jim Collins, From Good to Great
EGO: The great majority of heads of government, in my experience, are hardened egoists, corrupted
by exercising power even if not already corrupted by getting there. Paul Johnson, Heroes
ELDERLY:
It
is
good
even
for
old
men
to
learn
wisdom.
Aeschylus
ELDERLY:
Old
age
and
the
passage
of
time
teach
us
everything.
Sophocles
ELDERLY:
Seek
the
friendship
of
the
elderly.
Strabo
ELOQUENCE:
Eloquence
is
the
poetry
of
prose.
William
Bryant
EMPATHY:
The
human
psyche
isn’t
designed
to
withstand
the
full
gravity
of
planetary
suffering.
Numbness
and
exhaustion
are
natural
reactions.
Feeling
helpless
and
hopeless
is
nearly
inevitable.
The
heart
can
only
stretch
so
far
so
many
times
before
it
is
worn
thin
and
wrong
dry.
Shane
Hipps
EMPOWERING OTHERS: A leader is best when people barely know he exists. Not so good when people
obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his
work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, “We did it ourselves.” Lao-Tzu (604-531 BC)
EMPOWERING: (Words on the tombstone of Andrew Carneigie, the father of the U.S.steel industry)
here lies a man who knew how to bring into his service, men better than he was himself.
EMPOWERING:
If
you
want
to
build
for
one
year
from
now,
grow
wheat.
If
you
want
to
build
for
ten
years
from
now,
grow
trees.
If
you
want
to
build
for
one
hundred
years
from
now,
grow
people.
Chinese
proverb
EMPOWERING:
It’s
easy
to
hire,
but
it’s
much
harder
to
develop
.
.
.
If
you
want
to
grow
your
organization,
you
have
to
grow
your
people
first.
Howard
Behar,
It’s
Not
About
the
Coffee
EMPOWERING: No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit
for doing it. Andrew Carnegie
EMPOWERING:
The
best
minute
spent
is
one
I
invest
in
people.
Ken
Blanchard,
The
One
Minute
Manager
EMPTINESS:
This
is
one
of
our
fears
of
quiet;
if
we
stop
and
listen,
we
will
hear
this
emptiness.
Wayne
Mueller,
Sabbath
END
TIMES:
if
the
world
has
not
approached
its
end,
it
has
reached
a
major
watershed
in
history,
equal
in
importance
of
the
turn
from
the
Middle
ages
to
the
Renaissance.
It
will
demand
from
us
a
spiritual
blaze;
we
shall
have
to
rise
to
a
new
height
of
vision,
to
a
new
level
of
life.
Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn
ENEMIES: Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them. Abraham Lincoln
ENEMIES:
If
a
man
has
a
very
decided
character,
has
a
strongly
accentuated
career,
it
is
normally
the
case
of
course
that
he
makes
ardent
friends
and
bitter
enemies.
Theodore
Roosevelt
ENEMIES:
Pay
attention
to
your
enemies
because
they
are
the
first
to
discover
your
mistakes.
Antisthenes
ENEMY: It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.
14th Dalai Lama
ENTERTAINMENT:
Anyone
who
tries
to
make
a
distinction
between
education
and
entertainment
doesn’t
know
the
first
thing
about
either.
Marshall
McLuhan
ENTERTAINMENT:
I
really
believe
entertainment
in
a
lot
of
ways
has
become
a
way
for
people
to
come
together.
It
has,
in
fact,
become
–
I’m
convinced
of
this,
it’s
become
a
replacement
for
religion;
in
the
same
way
people
used
to
quote
scripture,
they’re
now
quoting
Seinfeld.
Michael
Wolfe
ENTERTAINMENT:
It
is
not
any
“ism”
but
entertainment
that
is
arguably
the
most
pervasive,
powerful,
and
ineluctable
force
of
our
time
–
a
force
so
overwhelming
that
is
has
finally
metastasized
into
life.
Neil
Gabler,
Life
the
Movie
ENTERTAINMENT:
We
don’t
need
to
worry
about
people
unconsciously
absorbing
archaic,
secret
message
when
they’re
six
years
old;
we
need
to
worry
about
all
the
entertaining
messages
people
are
consciously
accepting
when
they’re
twenty‐six.
Chuck
Klosterman,
Sex,
Drugs
and
Cocoa
Puffs
ENTHUSIASM: Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
ENTHUSIASM: Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
ENVY:
Debunking
others
is
envy’s
defining
mission.
David
Naugel,
Reordered
Love,
Reordered
Lives
ENVY:
Each
vainly
magnifies
his
own
success.
Resents
his
fellow’s,
wishes
it
were
less.
William
Cowper
ENVY:
Envy
cannot
bear
to
admire
or
respect,
it
cannot
.
.
.
be
grateful.
Dorothy
Sayers
ENVY:
Few
men
have
the
natural
strength
to
honor
a
friend’s
success
without
envy.
Aeschylus
ENVY:
The
consuming
desire
to
have
everybody
else
as
unsuccessful
as
you
are.
Frederick
Buecnher
ENVY/UNHAPPINESS:
An
agreeable
sensation
arising
from
contemplating
the
misery
of
another.
The
Devil’s
Dictionary
EVIL:
Great
men
are
almost
always
bad
men.
Lord
Acton
EVIL: It’s not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good. Sergey Brin, Google
EVIL:
Men
never
do
evil
so
completely
and
cheerfully
as
when
they
do
it
from
a
religious
conviction.
Blaise
Pascal
EVIL:
Nothing
is
easier
than
to
denounce
the
evildoer;
nothing
is
more
difficult
than
to
understand
him.
Fyodor
Dostoevsky
EVIL: The only way for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
EVOLUTION:
Evolution
didn’t
create
the
human
animal
to
be
happy.
We’re
not
designed
to
reach
a
continuous
state
of
happiness.
Evolution
created
in
humans
an
animal
who
always
wants
more.
David
Buss,
in
Urban
Tribes
EXAMPLE, LEAD BY: You don’t lead by pointing a finger and telling people someplace to go. You lead
by going to that place and making a case. Ken Kesey
EXAMPLE:
Example
is
contagious
behavior.
Charles
Reade,
19th
century
English
novelist
EXAMPLE:
Example
is
not
the
main
thing
in
influencing
others,
it
is
the
only
thing.
Albert
Schweitzer
EXAMPLE:
Example
is
the
most
potent
of
all
things
.
.
.
You
must
feel
that
the
most
effective
way
in
which
you
can
preach
is
by
your
practice.
Theodore
Roosevelt
EXAMPLE:
Example
is
the
most
potent
of
all
things.
Theodore
Roosevelt
EXAMPLE:
the
story
of
Theodore
Roosevelt
is
the
story
of
a
small
boy
who
read
about
great
men
and
decided
that
he
wanted
to
be
like
them
.
.
.
and
he
succeeded.
Hermann
Hagedorn
EXCELLENCE; Excellence is doing the best we can with what we have. Bill Hybels
EXCELLENCE: Excellence is not an act but a habit. Aristotle
EXCELLENCE: Nature has proclaimed that difficulty should precede every work of excellence.
Quintillian
EXCELLENCE:
Once
you
fly,
you
will
walk
with
your
eyes
skyward.
For
there
you
have
been
and
there
you
will
go
again.
Leonardo
da
Vinci
EXCELLENCE:
We
are
what
we
repeatedly
do.
Excellence,
then,
is
not
an
act,
but
a
habit.
Aristotle
EXCELLENCE: The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and
not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually growth comes at the expense of pervious
comfort or safety. Josh Waitzkin
EXCELLENCE: What is the difference that allows some to fit into that narrow window to the top? And,
what is the point? If ambition spells probably disappointment, why pursue excellence? In my opinion,
the answer to both questions lies in a well-thought-out approach that inspires resilience, the ability to
make connections between diverse pursuits, and day-to-day enjoyment of the process. The vast
majority of motivated people, young and old, make terrible mistakes in their approach to learning.
Josh Waitzkin
EXECUTION:
Execution
is
the
strategy.
EXECUTION: Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. Goethe
EXECUTION:
Execution
is
the
strategy.
Sam
Geist
EXPERIENCE: Experience is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing and hearing, the significant
things, of paying attention at the right moment, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not
what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley
EXPERIENCING
GOD:
Thinking
about
God
is
no
substitute
for
tasting
God
and
talking
about
God
is
no
substitute
for
giving
people
ways
to
experience
God.
Matthew
Fox
EXPERTISE: Once we reach a certain level of expertise at a given discipline and our knowledge is
expansive, the critical issue becomes: how is all this stuff navigated and put to use? I believe the
answers to this question are the gateway to the most esoteric levels of elite performance. Josh
Waitzkin
EXPERTS: Never try to be an expert if you are not. Build on your strengths and find strong people to
do the other necessary tasks. Peter Drucker
EXPLORE:
Do
not
follow
where
the
path
may
lead.
Go
instead
where
there
is
no
path
and
leave
a
trail.
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson
EXPOSURE:
The
fact
is,
you’re
always
on
the
record,
everyone
is
a
critic
(or
could
me),
and
the
Web
remembers
forever.
Seth
Godin,
Meatball
Sundae
FAILURE,
CREATIVITY:
You
can’t
create
without
making
messes
and
generating
chaos
and
blundering
down
blind
alleys
and
crawling
back
up
again
–
you
can’t
create
with
those
efforts
which
end
in
disaster,
because
it’s
the
disasters
which
show
you
how
to
get
things
right.
Eric
Tucker,
High
Flyer
FAILURE, DEFEAT: Only an inexperienced soldier belives that all is lost after being defeated for the
first time. Simon Bolivar
FAILURE:
A
leader’s
failure
is
never
isolated,
involving
only
the
leader.
Usually
the
failure
of
a
leader
involves
basic
patterns
of
hiding
and
blaming
throughout
the
whole
organization,
patterns
that
must
be
uprooted.
Dan
Allender,
Leading
Character
FAILURE:
Everything
fails.
It
is
just
a
matter
of
when.
Henry
Petroski,
To
Engineer
is
Human
FAILURE: Failure is not an option. Gene Kranz, Apollo 13
Failure:
Failure
is
the
opportunity
to
begin
again
more
intelligently.
Henry
Ford
FAILURE:
God
uses
people
who
fail
–
cause
there
aren’t
any
other
kinds
around.
Unknown
FAILURE: He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Herman Melville
FAILURE: I can asure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in
life. T.H. Huxley
FAILURE: I learnt what one ought not to do – and that is always something. Duke of Wellington
FAILURE:
If
you
are
not
failing
every
now
and
again,
it's
a
sign
you're
playing
it
safe.
Woody
Allen
FAILURE: If you are not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. Woody Allen
FAILURE: If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. H.G. Wells
FAILURE: If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What
we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. Mary Pickford
Failure:
The
fact
that
you
have
been
knocked
down
is
interesting,
but
the
length
of
time
you
remain
down
is
important.
Austin
O’Malley
FAILURE:
The
man
who
has
never
made
any
mistakes
has
never
made
anything.
Theodore
Roosevelt
FAITH: Faith as the plain man knows, is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. Elton
Trueblood, apologist
FAITH: Faith is not belief in spite of evidence, but life in scorn of consequences. Kirsopp Lake, New
FAITH: I believe that god can and will bring good out of evil. For that purpose he needs men who make
the best use of everything. I believe God will give us all the power we need to resist in all time of
distress. But he never gives it in advance, lest we should rely upon ourselves and not on him alone.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
FAITH: My hosanna has passed through the purgatory of doubt. Dyodor Dostoyevsky
FAME: At a young age, I came to know that there is something profoundly hollow about the nature of
fame. Josh Waitzkin (8 time national chess champion, holder of 21 national martial arts championships
and world championships)
FAMILIARITY:
Though
familiarity
may
not
breed
contempt,
it
takes
off
the
edge
of
admiration.
William
Hazlitt
FANATIC:
A
fanatic
is
someone
who
can’t
change
his
mind
and
won’t
change
the
subject.
David
Dark,
Sacred
of
Questioning
Everything
FANATICISM: They charge me with fanaticism. If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellowcreatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.
William Wilberforce
FATE:
The
lot
of
man
–
to
suffer
and
die.
Homer
FEAR: When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it. Alan
Paton
FEAR:
As
we
are
liberated
from
our
own
fear,
our
presence
automatically
liberates
others.
Nelson
Mandela
FEAR: Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul. Faye Dunaway
FEAR: He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
FEAR: I’ve grown certain that the root of all fear is that we’ve been forced to deny who we are.
Frances Moore Lappe
FEAR: No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
FEAR: Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more,
so that we may fear less. Marie Curie
FEAR:
There
are
only
a
few
things
in
life
from
which
I
derive
intense
pleasure,
speaking
is
not
one
of
them.
Churchill
FEAR: There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. Andre Gide
FEAR:
There’s
been
very
little
written
about
scaring
the
pants
off
employees
to
improve
results.
But
as
Richard
Nixon
said,
“people
react
to
fear,
not
love
–
they
don’t
teach
that
in
Sunday
School,
but
it’s
true.”
Leander
Kahney,
Inside
Steve’s
Brain
FEAR: We must travel in the direction of our fear. John Berryman
FEAR: You miss 100% of the shots you never take. Wayne Gretzky (the Great One)
FLATTERY:
Abhor
flatterers
as
you
would
deceivers;
for
both,
if
trusted,
inure
those
who
trust
them.
Isocrates
FLATTERY: Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, but not swallowed. Josh Billings
FOCUS:
Focus
means
saying
no.
Steve
Jobs
FOCUS: It is not enough to be busy, so too are the ants. The question is what are we busy about?
David Thoreau
FOCUS: The ability to identify and focus on the few necessary things is a hallmark of great leadership.
Andy Stanley
FOCUS:
The
power
to
organize
and
concentrate
wholly
upon
a
given
matter,
in
an
instant,
leaving
nothing
out,
and
then,
when
this
is
dispatched,
drop
it
as
if
it
had
never
existed,
and
go
on
to
the
next
matter.
Owen
Wister
FOCUS: What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours.
FOOLISHNESS: If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole Francois
Thibault
FOOLS: Any fool can find fault, but it takes a winner to find solutions. Chris Brady
FOOTBALL: Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst elements of American life: violence
and committee meetings. George F. Will
FREEDOM:
If
you
want
total
security,
go
to
prison.
There
you're
fed,
clothed,
given
medical
care
and
so
on.
The
only
thing
lacking
.
.
.
is
freedom.
Dwight
D.
Eisenhower
FREEDOM:
In
many
areas
of
life,
freedom
is
no
so
much
the
absence
of
restrictions
as
finding
the
right
nes,
the
liberating
restrictions
.
.
.
If
we
can
only
grow
intellectually,
vocationally,
and
physically
through
judicious
constraints
–
why
would
it
not
also
be
true
for
spiritual
and
moral
growth.
Tim
Keller,
The
Reason
for
God
FREEDOM:
Man
is
born
free,
and
everywhere
he
is
in
chains.
Rousseau
FREEDOM:
The
freedom
question,
then,
is
not
whether
we
can
do
whatever
we
want
but
whether
we
can
do
what
we
most
deeply
want.
Gerald
May,
The
Awakened
heart
FRIENDS: He (Charles de Gaulle) had devoted followers, but no friends. Paul Johnson, Heroes
FRIENDS: If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. Harry Truman
FRIENDS: Other dogs bit their enemies. I bite my friends for their salvation. Diogenes
FRIENDSHIP WITH CHRIST: To know him in yoru world now is to live interactively with him right where
you are in your daily activities. Dallas Willard, Knowing Christ Today
FRIENDSHIP,
ENVY:
Every
time
a
friend
succeeds,
I
die
a
little.
Gore
Vidal
FRIENDSHIP:
Many
people
will
walk
in
and
out
of
your
life,
but
only
true
friends
will
leave
footprints
in
your
heart.
Eleanor
Roosevelt
FRIENDSHIP:
Opposition
is
true
friendship.
William
Blake
FRIENDSHIP:
The
only
way
to
have
a
friend
is
to
be
one.
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson
FUTURE:
The
future
is
not
a
result
of
choices
among
alternative
paths
offered
by
the
present,
but
a
place
that
is
created
–
created
first
in
the
mind
and
will,
created
next
in
activity.
The
future
is
not
some
place
we
are
going
to,
but
one
we
are
creating.
GARDENING: To see plants rise from the earth and flourish by the superior skill and bounty of the
labourer fills a contemplative mind with ideas which are more easy to be conceived then expressed.
The more I am acquainted with agricultural affairs, the better I am pleased with them. I can nowhere
find so great satisfaction as in those innocent and useful pursuits. George Washington
GENEROSITY:
Generous
and
authentic
leadership
will
always
defeat
the
selfish
efforts
of
someone
doing
it
just
because
she
can.
Seth
Godin.
Tribes
GENIUS: he (Wittgenstein) was perhaps the most perfect example I have ever known of a genius as
traditionally conceived, passionate, profound, intense and domineering.” Bertrand Russell
GENIUS: No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. Peter
Drucker
GENIUS: Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur
Schopenhauer
GLORY
OF
GOD:
Earth’s
crammed
with
heaven,
And
every
common
bush
aflame
with
God:
But
only
he
who
sees,
takes
off
his
shoes,
The
rest
sit
round
it,
and
pluck
blackberries.
Elizabeth
Barrett
Browning
GLORY: Glory is a powerful incentive. Inevitably dreams are dashed, hearts are broken, most fall short
of their expectations because there is little room at the top . . . The world of actors and musicians is
brimming with huge expectations, wild competitiveness, and a tiny window of realistic possibility.
Josh Waitzkin
GLUTTONY:
A
glutton
is
one
who
raids
the
icebox
for
a
cure
for
spiritual
malnutrition.
Frederick
Buechner
GOALS:
Goals
are
emotional.
If
a
goal
is
not
working
for
you,
you’re
not
connected
to
it.
Raise
it,
make
it
meaningful,
make
it
touch
something
in
you
that
you
want.
Or
take
it
off
your
list.
Howard
Behar
GOALS: Regardless of the methods we use to motivate ourselves, we have to create our own goals and
standards and then keep raising them. Gary Kasparov
GOALS/PLANS:
Without
goals
and
plans
to
reach
them,
you
are
like
a
ship
that
has
set
sail
with
no
destination.
Fitzhugh
Dodson
GOD:
God
is
of
no
importance
unless
he
is
of
supreme
importance.
Abraham
heschel
GOD:
God,
then,
is
our
spouse
and
sovereign,
and
claims
exclusive
rights
to
our
love
and
loyalty.
If
we
succumb
to
idolatry,
we
are
guilty
of
infidelity
and
disloyalty.
David
Naugel,
Reordered
Love,
Reordered
Lives
GOD:
Take
God
very
seriously
but
don’t
take
yourself
seriously
at
all.
Teresa
of
Avila
GOD:
The
hardness
of
God
is
kinder
than
the
softness
of
man,
and
His
compulsion
is
our
liberation.
C.S.
Lewis,
Surprised
by
Joy
GOD: We are talking about God; so why are you surprised if you cannot grasp it? I mean, if you can
grasp it, it isn’t God. Augustine
GOD:
We
want
God
to
be
palatable
and
to
fit
our
needs
and
realities,
so
we
don’t
have
to
practice
a
daily
discipline.
Fujimura,
Refractions
GOD’S
WILL:
God’s
will
is
the
best
thing
that
could
happen
to
us
under
any
circumstances.
Danny
Morris
and
Charles
Olsen,
Discerning
God’s
Will
Together
GOD’S
WILL:
I
distrust
those
people
who
know
so
well
what
god
wants
them
to
do,
because
I
know
it
always
coincides
with
their
own
desires.
Susan
B.
Anthony
GODs:
The
gods
we
worship
write
their
names
on
our
faces;
be
sure
of
that.
Therefore
it
behooves
us
to
be
careful
what
we
worship,
for
what
we
are
worshipping
we
are
becoming.
Emerson
Good
and
Evil:
In
general,
good
and
evil
grow
together,
intertwine
around
each
other,
and
grow
out
of
each
other
in
remarkable
and
complicated
ways.
Cornelius
Plantinga
GOOD
AND
EVIL:
There
is
only
one
good,
namely
knowledge,
and
one
only
evil,
namely,
ignorance.
Socrates
GOOD: There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what is the question. Peter Drucker
GOODNESS:
Badness
can
be
got
easily
and
in
shoals;
the
road
to
her
is
smooth
and
she
lives
very
near
us.
But
between
us
and
goodness
the
gods
have
placed
the
sweat
of
our
brows;
long
and
steep
is
the
path
that
leads
to
her.
Hesiod,
Works
and
Days
GOODNESS:
Evil
rolls
across
the
ages,
but
so
does
good.
Good
has
its
own
momentum.
Corruption
never
wholly
succeeds.
Creation
is
stronger
than
sin
and
grace
stronger
still.
Creation
and
grace
are
anvils
that
have
worn
out
a
lot
of
our
hammers.
Cornelius
Plantinga
Jr.,
Not
the
Way
Its
Suppose
to
Be
GOOGLE: I think, therefore I Goggle. David Smith, columnist, The Guardian
GOOGLE: It’s Google’s world. WE just live in it. Chris Tulles, vice-president, Topix Inc.
GOVERNMENT: Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them. Ronald Reagan
GOVERNMENT:
Giving
money
and
power
to
the
government
is
like
giving
whiskey
and
car
keys
to
teenage
boys.
P.
J.
O’Rourke,
Parliament
of
Whores
GRACE:
Alas,
my
poor
heart,
here
we
are,
fallen
into
the
pit
we
were
so
firmly
resolved
to
avoid!
Well,
we
must
get
up
again
and
leave
it
forever.
St.
Francis
de
Sales
GRACE:
Grace
is
a
curious
thing.
We
love
receiving
it,
but
we
really
don’t
like
seeing
it
given
out
so
lavishly
to
others.
Ed
Cyzewski
GRACE: If . . . we remember God’s grace, then we lose the pride that would make us a Pharisee and
the despair that would make us a cynic. Merold Westphal, Suspicion and Faith
GRATITUDE:
All
goods
look
better
when
they
look
like
gifts.
Chesterton,
Saint
Francis
of
Assisi
GRATITUDE:
Don’t
it
always
seem
to
go,
that
you
don’t
know
what
you’ve
got
‘til
it’s
gone?
Joni
Mitchell,
Big
Yellow
Taxi
GRATITUDE:
Feeling
gratitude
and
not
expressing
it
is
like
wrapping
a
present
and
not
giving
it.
William
Arthur
Ward
GRATITUDE: Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but parent of all the others. Cicero
GRATITUDE:
Gratitude
is
not
only
the
greatest
of
virtues,
but
parent
of
all
the
others.
Cicero
GRATITUDE:
If
the
only
prayer
you
said
in
your
whole
life
was
“thank‐you,”
that
would
suffice.
Meister
Eckhart,
German
mystic
GRATITUDE:
Sometimes
the
most
grateful
pilgrim
is
the
one
whose
road
has
been
the
rockiest.
James
Martin
GREAT
COMMANDMENT:
He
(St.
Ignatius)
loved
God
and
loved
the
world,
and
those
two
things
he
did
quite
well.
James
Martin
GREAT
MINDS:
Great
minds
discuss
ideas,
average
minds
discuss
events,
small
minds
discuss
people.
Admiral
Human
Rickover
GREATNESS:
We
do
no
great
things.
We
do
only
small
things
with
great
love.
Mother
Teresa
GREATNESS:
Greatness
is
always
built
on
this
foundation:
the
ability
to
appear,
speak
and
act,
as
the
most
common
man.
Shams‐ud‐din
Muhammed
Hafiz
GREATNESS: Greatness is not a function of circumstances. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter
of conscious choice and discipline. Jim Collins
GREATNESS: I’ve determined that companies must meet two criteria to become great. They must
enable (empower) – not simply encourage – organizational learning, and they need to demand a passion
for greatness. Amit Mukherjee (HBR, Dec 2007)
GREATNESS: One thing I have learned as a competitor is that there are clear distinctions between
what it takes to be decent, what it takes to be good, what it takes to be great, and what it takes to be
among the best. Josh Waitzkin
GREATNESS: Really great men have a curious feeling that greatness isnot in them, but through them.
John Ruskin
GROWING: We are either “living a little more or dying a little bit” at every moment. There is no
standing still, no maintaining a perfect equilibrium. Norman Mailer / Gary Kasparov
GROWTH:
Always
dream
and
shoot
higher
than
you
know
you
can
do.
Don’t
bother
just
to
be
better
than
your
contemporaries
or
predecessors.
Try
to
be
beter
than
yourself.
William
Faulkner
GROWTH: Growth is the only evidence of life. John Henry Newman
GROWTH: I never cease to be amazed that organizations do not insist that their leaders be continually
improving and persistently working toward becoming the best leaders they can be. James C. Hunter
GROWTH:
It’s
never
too
late
to
be
who
you
might
have
been.
George
Eliot
GROWTH:
Man’s
task
is
to
make
of
himself
a
work
of
art.
Henry
Miller
GROWTH:
One
grows
or
dies.
There
is
no
third
possibility.
Oswald
Spengler
GROWTH:
The
development
of
the
individual
can
be
described
as
a
succession
of
new
births
at
consecutively
higher
levels.
Maria
Montessori
Growth:
The
meaning
of
earthly
existing
lies,
not
as
we
have
grown
used
to
thinking,
in
prospering,
but
in
the
development
of
the
soul.
Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
GROWTH: We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Ralph Waldo Emerson
HABITS:
A
habit,
I
say,
is
longtime
training
,
my
firend.
And
this
becomes
men’s
nature
in
the
end.
Aristotle
HABITS:
The
second
half
of
a
man’s
life
is
made
up
of
nothing
but
the
habits
he
has
acquired
during
the
first
half.
Fyodor
Dostoevsky
HAPPINES:
In
Christianity,
the
happy
life
.
.
.
is
a
life
in
which
we
see
and
love
God
supremely
in
relationship
to
all
things,
and
in
which
we
see
and
love
all
things
properly
in
relationship
to
God,
who
we
love
the
more.
David
Naugel,
Reordered
Love,
Reordered
Lives
HAPPINESS:
All
people
are
in
search
of
happiness.
There
is
no
exception
to
this
whatever
different
methods
are
employed.
Blaise
Pascal
HAPPINESS:
For
certainly
by
sinning,
we
lost
both
piety
and
happiness;
but
when
we
lost
happiness,
we
did
not
lose
the
love
of
it.
Augustine
HAPPINESS:
Growth
itself
contains
the
germ
of
happiness.
Pearl
s.
Buck
HAPPINESS:
Half
of
the
world
is
on
the
wrong
scent
in
pursuit
of
happiness.
Henry
Drummond
HAPPINESS: Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway
HAPPINESS: Happiness is good health and a bad memory. Ingrid Bergman
HAPPINESS:
I
believe
that
the
very
purpose
of
our
life
is
to
seek
happiness.
That
is
clear.
Whether
one
believes
in
religion
or
not,
whether
one
believes
in
this
religion
or
that
religion,
we
are
all
seeking
something
better
in
life.
So
I
think
the
very
motion
of
our
life
is
towards
happiness.
Dali
Lama,
The
Art
of
Happiness
HAPPINESS:
I
serve
You
and
worship
You
that
I
may
be
happy
in
You,
to
whom
I
owe
that
I
am
a
being
capable
of
happiness.
Augustine,
Confessions
HAPPINESS:
if
we
only
wanted
to
be
happy,
it
would
be
easy;
but
we
always
want
to
be
happier
than
other
people,
which
is
almost
always
difficult,
since
we
think
them
happier
than
they
are.
Charles
de
Montesquieu
HAPPINESS: If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice
compassion. 14th Dalai Lama
HAPPINESS:
If
you
want
to
live
a
happy
life,
tie
it
to
a
goal,
not
to
people
or
objects.
Albert
Einstein
HAPPINESS:
If
your
happiness
depends
on
what
somebody
else
does,
I
guess
you
do
have
a
problem.
Richard
Bach
HAPPINESS:
It
is
a
Christian
duty
.
.
.
for
everyone
to
be
as
happy
as
he
can.
C.S.Lewis
HAPPINESS: Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be. Abraham Lincoln
HAPPINESS:
The
saints
love
their
own
happiness.
Jonathan
Edwards
HAPPINESS:
There
is
not
any
things
in
this
world,
perhaps,
that
is
more
talked
of,
and
less
understood,
than
the
business
of
a
happy
life.
It
is
every
person’s
wish
and
design;
and
yet
not
one
of
a
thousand
.
.
.
knows
wherein
that
happiness
consists.
Seneca
HARD
WORK:
it
is
better
to
wear
out
than
to
rust
out.
There
will
be
time
enough
for
repose
in
the
grave.
Richard
Cumberland
HARD WORK: The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But
they while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
HARD WORK: There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group, there is a lot less competition there. Indira Gandhi
HARDNESS: To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
Max Lerner
HARDSHIP:
he
who
knows
no
hardships
will
know
no
hardihood.
He
who
faces
no
calamity
will
need
no
courage.
Mysterious
though
it
is,
the
characteristics
in
human
nature
which
we
love
best
grow
in
a
soil
with
a
strong
mixture
of
troubles.
Harry
Emerson
Fosdick
HATRED:
A
virtuous
man
cannot
hate
another
virtuous
man.
Meander
HEART:
All
real
formation
work
is
“heart
work.”
The
heart
is
the
wellspring
of
all
human
action.
All
of
the
devotional
masters
call
us
constantly,
almost
monotonously,
toward
a
purity
of
heart.
Richard
Foster
HEART:
As
it
is
the
nature
of
the
body
to
be
developed
by
appropriate
exercises,
I
t
is
the
nature
of
the
soul
to
be
developed
by
moral
precepts.
Isocrates
HEAVEN:
Assemble
in
your
imagination
all
the
friends
that
you
enjoy
being
with
most.
The
companions
that
evoke
the
deepest
joy,
your
most
stimulating
relationships,
the
most
delightful
of
shred
experiences,
the
people
with
whom
you
feel
completely
alive
–
that
is
a
hint
of
heaven.
Eugene
Peterson
HEAVEN:
Either
there
is
pie
in
the
sky
or
there
is
not.
If
there
is
not,
then
Christianity
is
false,
for
this
doctrine
is
women
into
its
whole
fabric.
If
there
is,
then
this
truth,
like
any
other,
must
be
faced,
whether
it
is
useful
at
political
meetings
or
not.
C.S.
Lewis
HERESY:
It
is
the
customary
fate
of
new
truths
to
begin
as
heresies.
Thomas
Huxley
HEROISM:
let
him
who
write
heroic
poems
make
his
life
a
heroic
poem.
John
Milton
HIGHLY INTENTIONAL: (This quote is in light of Ben Franklin’s personal focus on developing 13
different virtues he felt worthy of his attention and which he organized a demanding schedule of
improvement around.) But on the whole, though I never arrived at Perfection I had been so ambitious
of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was by the endeavor made a better and a happier man than I
otherwise would have been, if I had not attempted it. Ben Franklin
HIGHLY INTENTIONAL: Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will
not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is
almost a proverb. Education alone will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge
HISTORY:
History
rhymes,
it
does
not
repeat.
Mark
Twain
HISTORY:
The
Past
stood
ever
at
his
elbow
and
was
the
counselor
upon
which
he
most
relied.
He
seemed
to
be
attended
by
Learning
and
History,
and
to
carry
into
current
events
an
air
of
ancient
majesty.
Winston
Churchill
speaking
about
another
British
statesman
HOLINESS:
Holiness
is
not
the
same
as
niceness
or
even
goodness
in
the
usual
sense.
Robert
Ellsberg
HONESTY: If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst. Thomas Hardy, poet
HONESTY:
If
you
cannot
get
rid
of
the
family
skeleton,
you
may
as
well
make
it
dance.
G.
B.
Shaw
HOPE:
All
shall
be
well
and
all
shall
be
well
and
all
manner
of
things
shall
be
well.
Julian
of
Norwich
HOPE:
Hope
is
a
mode
of
knowing,
a
mode
within
which
new
things
are
possible,
options
are
not
shut
down,
new
creation
can
happen.
N.T.
Wright
HUMAN
NATURE:
Human
nature
hasn’t
changed
a
bit.
What
has
changed
is
the
environment
we
live
in.
Seth
Godin,
Meatball
Sundae
HUMAN
NATURE:
Human
beings,
left
to
their
own
devices,
don’t
act
like
robots
or
rational
computers.
We
don’t
all
do
the
same
things,
and
we
don’t
do
things
for
the
same
reasons.
Seth
Godin,
Meatball
Sundae
Humanity,
Messy:
What
we
are
is
a
set
of
walking
contradictions.
Lewis
Smedes
HUMANITY:
Man
is
the
only
animal
that
laughs
and
weeps;
for
he
is
the
only
animal
that
is
struck
with
the
difference
between
what
things
are
and
what
they
ought
to
be.
William
Hazlitt
HUMBLE: I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks
as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its
heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushed of each honest worker. Helen Keller
HUMILITY,
LEARNING:
The
more
one
learns,
the
more
he
understands
his
ignorance.
Louis
L’Amour
HUMILITY: No leader is worth his salt who won’t set up chairs. Peter Drucker
HUMILITY:
Every
man
I
meet
is
in
some
way
my
superior,
and
in
that
I
can
learn
of
him.
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson
HUMILITY:
I
am
just
a
simple
monk.
Dalai
Lama
(the
title
means
Ocean
of
Wisdom)
HUMILITY: I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined. Ben Franklin
HUMILITY:
it
will
do
you
no
harm
to
find
yourself
ridiculous.
Resign
yourself
to
be
the
fool
you
are.
T.S.
Eliot
HUMILITY: Only the humble person will et God be God. Such people are realistic about who they
actually are. Dallas Willard, Knowing Christ Today
HUMILITY:
The
foundation
of
our
philosophy
is
humility.
Saint
John
of
Chrysostom
HUMILITY:
The
more
fruit
rice
stalks
bear
the
lower
they
bow.
HUMOR:
Against
the
assault
of
laughter,
nothing
can
stand.
Mark
Twain
HUMOR: When the going gets tough, the tough get to laughing. Unknown
HUMOR:
You
can
pretend
to
be
serious,
but
you
can’t
pretend
to
be
witty.
Sacha
Gultry
HUMOR: You put new ideas over by making people laugh. All new ideas are looked upon as dangerous,
and people fight them as they fight tigers. But all clowns are considered harmless. So you get a man
laughing and before he knows it you’ve passed your ideas on to him. William Woodward, Bunk
HUMOR:
Laughter
is
the
shortest
distance
between
two
people.
Victor
Borge
I
WAS
SILENT:
When
the
Nazis
came
to
get
the
Communists,
I
was
silent,
because
I
was
not
a
communist.
When
they
came
to
get
the
Socialists,
I
was
silent.
When
they
came
to
get
the
Catholics
I
was
silent.
When
they
came
to
get
the
Jews,I
was
silent.
And
when
they
came
to
get
me,
there
was
no
one
left
to
speak.
Martin
Niemoeller,
Confessing
Pastor
of
the
Lutheran
Church
IDEALS: Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die, and none are fit to die who have shrunk from
the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure . . .
Unless men are willing to fight and die for great ideals, including love of country, ideals will vanish,
and the world will become one huge sty of materialism . . . All of us who give service, and stand ready
for sacrifice, are the torchbearers . . . The torches whose flames are brightest are borne by the gallant
men at the front . . . These are the torchbearers, these are they who have dared the Great Adventure.
Theodore Roosevelt
IDEAS: All the forces in the world are not as powerful as an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
IDEAS:
How
many
ideas
have
there
been
in
the
history
of
man
which
were
unthinkable
ten
years
before
they
appeared.
Fyodor
Dostoevsky
IDEAS:
Ideas
are
dangerous.
G.
K.
Chesterton
IDEAS: Ideas do not make their way in history except they be carried by persons and institutions.
IDEAS:
Ideas
have
consequences.
IDEAS:
Neither
man
nor
nation
can
exist
without
a
sublime
idea.
Fyodor
Dostoevsky
IDEAS:
Not
to
engage
in
the
pursuit
of
ideas
is
to
live
like
ants
instead
of
like
men.
Mortimer
Adler
IDEAS:
Once
you
wake
up
thought
in
a
man
you
can
never
put
it
to
sleep
again.
Zora
Neale
Hurston
IDEAS/FEAR:
In
a
battle
between
two
ideas,
the
best
one
doesn’t
necessarily
win.
No,
the
idea
that
wins
is
the
one
with
the
most
fearless
heretic
behind
it.
IDENTITY:
(We)
live
in
a
deranged
age,
more
deranged
than
usual,
because
in
spite
of
great
scientific
and
technological
advances,
man
has
not
the
faintest
idea
of
who
he
is
or
what
he
is
doing.
Walker
Percy
IDENTITY:
It
seems
to
me
that
at
bottom
each
person
is
asking,
'Who
am
I,
really?
How
can
I
get
in
touch
with
this
real
self,
underlying
all
my
surface
behavior?
How
can
I
become
myself?
Carl
Rogers
IDENTITY:
The
curious
paradox
is
that
when
I
accept
myself
just
as
I
am,
then
I
can
change.
Carl
Rogers
IDOLATRY:
Idolatry
is
the
practice
of
ascribing
absolute
value
to
things
of
relative
worth.
Frederick
Buechner
IGNORANCE:
The
problem
with
interviewing
famous
people
is
that
–
much
of
the
time
–
they
don’t
know
anything.
.
.
Celebrity
journalism
is
usually
just
attractive
people
trying
to
make
up
answers
to
questions
they
barely
understand.
Chuck
Klosterman,
Sex,
Drugs
and
Cocoa
Puffs
IGNORANCE:
Everybody
is
wrong
about
everything,
just
about
all
the
time.
Chuck
Klosterman,
Sex,
Drugs
and
Cocoa
Puffs
IGNORANCE:
Never
before
have
so
many
known
so
little
about
so
much
of
great
importance.
Eric
Metaxas,
Screwtape
on
the
Da
Vinci
Code
ILLITERATE:
If
I
have
learned
anything
from
working
in
journalism,
it’s
that
people
who
read
newspapers
apparently
can’t
read
newspapers.
Chuck
Klosterman,
Sex,
Drugs
and
Cocoa
Puffs
IMAGE OF GOD: The conclusion I dread is not, “So there’s no God after all,” but “So this is what God’s
really like. Deceive yourself no longer.” C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
IMAGE
OF
GOD:
You
can
safely
assume
you’ve
created
God
in
your
own
image
when
it
turns
out
he
hates
all
of
the
same
people
you
do.
Anne
Lamott
IMAGE:
Thning
hair,
splotchy
skin,
love
handles,
cellulite,
stretch
marks,
and
wrinkles
become
sources
of
preoccupation,
depression,
and
great
effort.
The
funny
thing
is
Jesus
never
talked
much
about
thick
hair,
ripped
abs
youthful
skin,
or
sexy
legs.
Shane
Hipps
IMAGES: Despite the constant bombardment of images for commercial and entertainment purposes . .
. modern people prefer to think of themselves as disengaged voyeurs. The disengagement is an illusion.
Margaret Miles, Image as Insight
IMAGINATION:
Demons
are
known
to
work
on
men’s
imagination
until
everything
is
other
than
it
is.
Thomas
Aquinas
IMAGINATION:
You
cannot
depend
on
your
eyes
when
your
imagination
is
out
of
focus.
Mark
Twain
IMAGINATION:
Imagination
is
more
important
than
knowledge.
Albert
Einstein
IMPROVEMENT: if improvement in playing a sport takes consistent practice and coaching, how much
more do we need practice and coaching to instill spiritual discernment along with moral skills and
sensibilities? Rex Miller, The Millenium Matrix
INCOMPETENCE: Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. Laurence J. Peter
INDIFFERENCE:
The
enemy
of
life
is
indifference.
Elie
Wiesel
INDIVIDUALISM, SELFISH: When no firm and lasting ties any longer unite men, it is impossible to
obtain the cooperation of any great number of them unless you can persuade every man whose help is
required that he serves his private interests by voluntarily uniting his efforts to those of all the others.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
INDIVIVDUALNESS: Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. Albert
Einstein
INDIVIVDUALNESS: Figure out who you are and then do it on purpose. Dolly Parton
INDIVIVDUALNESS: To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make
you everybody else – means to fight the harest battle which any human being can fight; and neer stop
fighting. E.e. comings
INDIVIVDUALNESS: No man should part with his individuality to become another. No process is so fatal
as that which would cast all men into one mold. William Ellery Channing
INEVITABILITY:
There
is
absolutely
no
inevitability
as
long
as
there
is
a
willingness
to
contemplate
what
is
happening.
Marshall
McLuhan
INFLUENCE:
Genuine
influence
means
people
pick
up
where
you
left
off
because
they
believe.
Annette
Simmons,
The
Story
Factor
INFLUENCE:
The
early
Christians
out‐thought,
outlived,
and
out‐died
their
pagan
counterparts.
This
certainly
cannot
be
said
of
pop‐Christians.
Dick
Staub,
The
Culturally
Savvy
Christian
INFLUENCE:
The
loves
of
a
few
men
move
the
lives
of
many.
History
itself
seems
to
turn
in
one
direction
rather
than
another
with
the
turning
of
an
emperor’s
heart.
INFLUENCE: They will forget what you said. They will forget what you did. But they never will forget
how you made them feel. Maya Angelou
INFLUENCE:
You
cannot
antagonize
and
influence
at
the
same
time.
John
Knox,
Scottish
Reformer
INJUSTICE:
the
worst
case
of
injustice
is
for
someone
to
believe
he
is
just
while
he
is
not.
Plato,
the
Republic
INJUSTICE:
In
the
state
where
court
cases
and
great
injustices
abound,
citizens
will
never
become
friends.
Plato,
Laws
INNOVATION,
FAILURE:
Publicly
acknowledge
a
risk
taker,
a
rule
breaker,
even
a
failure,
and
explain
why
every
successful
organization
needs
them.
Tom
Kelley,
The
Art
of
Innovation
INNOVATION:
Good
artists
copy,
great
artists
steal.
Picasso
INNOVATION:
Orville
Wright
did
not
have
a
pilot’s
license.
Gordon
MacKenzie,
Orbiting
the
Giant
Hairball
INNOVATION: The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your minds, but how to
get old ones out . . . Make an empty space in any corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill
it. Dee Hock
INNOVATION:
We
don’t
think,
let’s
be
innovative.
Trying
to
systemize
innovation
is
like
somebody
who’s
not
cool
trying
to
be
cool.
It’s
painful
to
watch.
Steve
Jobs
INNOVATION:
We
have
always
been
shameless
about
stealing
great
ideas.
Steve
Jobs
INSANITY: That’s the truest sign of insanity – insane people are always sure they’re just fine. It’s only
the sane people who are willing to admit they’re crazy. Nora Ephron
INSPIRATION: Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison
INSPIRATION:
We’re
on
the
prowl
for
inspiration.
We
want
something
extra‐authentic,
something
to
shake
our
nerves
and
rattle
our
brains.
We
need
something
to
keep
us
from
throwing
in
the
towel
and
losiong
our
minds
–
something
to
get
us
out
of
bed.
Gospel,
the
news
we
call
good,
is
always
a
media
issue.
David
Dark,
Sacred
of
Questioning
Everything
INSPIRE: A true leader inspires others to lead themselves. Ari D. Kaplan
INTEGRATION:
An
integrated
character
(is)
a
oneness,
primarily
with
self
but
also
with
life.
Stephen
Covey.
INTEGRITY: He (Lincoln) inevitably did the right thing, however easily it might have been avoided.
Paul Johnson, Heroes
INTEGRITY:
In
all
things
resolve
to
act
as
though
the
whole
world
would
see
what
you
do;
for
even
if
you
conceal
your
deeds
for
the
moment
later
you
will
be
found
out.
Isocrates
INTEGRITY:
What
madness
is
the
course
I
am
pursuing?
I
believe
all
the
great
truths
of
the
Christian
religion,
but
I
am
not
acting
as
though
I
did.
Wilberforce
INTENTIONALITY, WORK ETHIC: The ability to push yourself to the limit day after day, and to do so
effectively . . . is a talent that we should all try to cultivate. Gary Kasparov
INTENTIONALITY: In life there is no such obligation to move. If you can’t find a useful plan, you can
watch television, stick with business as usual, and believe that no news is good news. Human beings
are brilliantly creative at finding ways to pass time in unconstructive ways. Gary Kasparov
INTERNET: The internet is fundamentally about connecting with people of common interest, facilitating
person-to-person conversations, collaboration, assistance, and collective learning. The internet inverts
the power curve away from centralized control and content to distributed power and member-generated
content. The internet is about the exponential value of networks, the power of conversation, and
liberation from past obstacles of time, location, gender, age, ethnicity, disability and tradition. Rex Miller,
Millenium Matrix
INTERNET: The net is a planet spanning virtual ecosystem, a cognitive rain forest teeming with new
concepts and connections, issues and inquires, studies and speculations, proposals, predictions and
unlimited potential. H. Campbell
INTUITION, PARADIGMS: When we tackle a problem, we never start from scratch; we instinctively,
even unconsciously, look for a past parallel. We work out the authenticity of the parallels and see if we
can work out a similar recipe from these slightly different ingredients. Gary Kasparov
INTUITION: A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty. Kipling
INTUITION: You are here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain but you feel
it. You felt it your whole life. There is something wrong with the world, but you don’t know what it is.
But its’s there like a splinter in your mind. Morpheus in the Matrix
JESUITS:
We
study
like
students.
We
clean
like
housewives.
And
we
still
have
to
find
the
time
to
pray
like
monks.
Aside
from
that,
we
kind
of
get
on
each
other’s
nerves.
JESUS, SERVANT: Some of us are trying to figure out what it means to be a people who follow one
who relinquished his rights rather than asserted them, who considered submission a higher value than
freedom.
JESUS:
I
believe
because
he
fulfills
none
of
my
dreams,
because
he
is
in
every
respect
the
opposite
of
what
he
would
be
if
I
could
have
made
him
in
my
image.
W.H.
Auden
JESUS:
The
vision
of
Christ
that
thou
does
see
/
Is
my
vision’s
greatest
enemy.
William
Blake
JESUS:
To
those
who
knew
Him,
he
in
no
way
suggested
a
milk
and
water
person;
they
objected
to
Him
as
a
dangerous
firebrand.
Dorothy
Sayers
JOURNEY:
Do
not
go
where
the
path
may
lead,
go
instead
where
there
is
no
path
and
leave
a
trail.
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson
JOURNEY:
Everything
in
my
life
brought
me
here.
Rainer
Marie
Rilke
JOURNEY:
If
there’s
no
end
to
pursue,
why
undergo
the
journey
in
the
first
place?
A
journey
without
a
destination
is
a
vagrancy;
not
a
voyage.
Len
Sweet
JOURNEY:
it
is
good
to
be
between
a
ruined
house
of
bondage
and
a
holy
promised
land.
Leonard
Cohen
JOURNEY:
It
is
good
to
have
an
end
to
journey
toward;
but
it
is
the
journey
that
matters
in
the
end.
Ursula
K.
LeGuin
JOURNEY:
It
will
be
neither
a
return
nor
a
departure
but
a
continuing.
John
McGahern,
The
Leavetaking
JOURNEY:
It’s
not
about
the
destination;
it’s
about
the
journey.
UltraMarathon
Cycling
Assoc.
JOURNEY:
it’s
not
about
the
journey
or
the
destination;
it’s
about
what
you
do
once
you
get
there.
JOURNEY:
Life
is
a
journey.
Enjoy
the
ride.
Nissan
JOURNEY:
Life
is
not
about
journeys
or
destinations;
it’s
about
how
you
look
while
you’re
traveling.
Michael
Blewett
JOURNEY:
Once
a
journey
is
designed,
equipped,
and
put
in
process,
a
new
factor
enters
and
takes
over.
.
.
.
It
has
a
personality,
temperament,
individuality,
uniqueness.
A
journey
is
a
person
in
itself,
no
two
are
alike.
.
.
.
We
find
after
years
of
struggle
that
we
do
not
take
a
trip;
a
trip
takes
us.
John
Steinbeck,
Travels
With
Charley
JOURNEY:
The
expense
is
reckoned,
the
enterprise
is
begun.
It
is
of
God’;
it
cannot
be
withstood.
Edmund
Campion
JOURNEY:
To
journey
without
being
changed
is
to
be
a
nomad.
To
change
without
journeying
is
to
be
a
chameleon.
To
journey
and
to
be
transformed
by
that
journey
is
to
be
a
pilgrim.
Mark
Nepo,
The
Exquisite
RisK
JOURNEY:
with
what
end
in
view
do
you
again
and
again
walk
along
difficult
and
laborious
paths?
Augustine
JOURNEY:
By
experienced
we
have
learned
that
the
path
has
many
and
great
difficulties
connected
with
it.
Jesuits
JOY:
Be
joyful
even
though
you
have
considered
all
the
facts.
Wendell
Berry
JOY:
In
every
real
man,
the
will
for
life
is
also
the
will
for
joy.
Karl
Barth
JOY:
Man
is
more
himself,
man
is
more
man‐lilke,
when
joy
is
the
fundamental
thing
in
him,
and
grief
the
superficial.
Melancholy
should
be
an
innocent
interlude,
a
tender
and
fugitive
frame
of
mind;
praise
should
be
the
permanent
pulsation
of
the
soul.
Chesterton,
Orthodoxy
JOY:
Solemnity
flows
out
of
men
naturally;
but
laughter
is
a
leap.
It
is
easy
to
be
heavy;
hard
to
be
light.
Satan
fell
by
the
force
of
gravity.
JOY:
The
joy
of
living
is
his
who
has
the
heart
to
demand
it.
Theodore
Roosevelt
JOY:
You
can
be
a
great
deal
too
solemn
about
Christianity
to
be
a
good
Christian
.
.
.
in
your
philosophy
and
your
religion
–
you
must
have
mirth.
If
you
do
not
have
mirth,
you
will
certainly
have
madness.
Chesterton,
Lunacy
and
Letters
JUDGING:
Whoever
undertakes
to
set
himself
up
as
a
judge
of
truth
and
knowledge
is
shipwrecked
by
the
laughter
of
the
gods.
Albert
Einstein
JUDGMENT:
We
have
much
to
be
judged
on
when
he
comes,
slums
and
battlefields
and
insane
asylums,
but
these
are
the
symptoms
of
our
illness
and
the
result
of
our
failure
sin
love.
In
the
evening
of
life
we
shall
be
judged
on
love,
and
not
one
of
us
is
going
to
come
off
very
well,
and
were
it
not
for
my
absolute
faith
in
the
loving
forgiveness
of
my
Lord,
I
could
not
call
on
him
to
come.
Madeleine
L’Engle
JUSTICE:
Justice
is
like
a
train
that’s
nearly
always
late.
Yevgeny
Yevtushenko
JUSTICE:
The
unweary,
unostentatious,
and
inglorious
crusade
of
England
against
slavery
may
probably
be
regarded
as
among
the
three
or
four
perfectly
virtuous
pages
comprised
in
the
history
of
nations.
William
Lecky,
Irish
historian
KINDNESS: Shall we make a new rule of life tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is
necessary. James Barrie
KNOWLEDGE:
I
shall
need
to
have
been
dead
several
years
before
I
shall
thoroughly
understand
the
meaning
of
creation
and
the
omnipotence
of
God.
Martin
Luther
KNOWLEDGE: I’m not young enough to know everything. James Barrie
KNOWLEDGE:
Knowing
a
variety
of
paths
is
very
useful.
Broaden
your
knowledge.
It
is
necessary
to
polish
your
own
path.
Miyamoto
Musashi,
The
Book
of
Five
Rings
KNOWLEDGE:
Leaders
get
paid
to
know,
and
even
when
they
don’t
know,
they
get
paid
to
know.
Howard
Behar,
It’s
Not
About
the
Coffee
KNOWLEDGE:
Whatever
the
risk
of
corruption
from
intercourse
with
the
world
around,
such
a
risk
must
be
encountered
if
a
great
idea
is
fully
to
be
understood
and
much
more
if
it
is
to
be
fully
exhibited.
John
Henry
Newman
KNOWLEDGE:
The
mind
unfettered
finds
its
way
to
God.
KNOWLEDGE/IGORANCE/GOOD/EVIL:
There
is
one
only
good,
namely,
knowledge;
and
one
only
evil,
namely
ignorance.
Socrates
LANGUAGE:
I
we’re
going
to
live
and
think
freely,
we
get
to
seek
our
redemptive
language,
keep
it
in
our
heads,
treasure
it,
and
talk
about
it
as
if
our
very
souls
depend
on
this
good,
new,
saving
way
of
putting
things.
Ancient
wisdom
suggests
that
our
souls
do.
We
live
or
die
by
words.
David
Dark,
Sacred
of
Questioning
Everything
LAUGHTER: I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter.
Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh and too many of the elders have forgotten how to
love. Theodore Hesburgh
LAW: It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me,
and I think that's pretty important. Martin Luther King, Jr.
LAZINESS:
Shun
idleness.
It
is
a
rust
that
attaches
itself
to
the
most
brilliant
metals.
Voltaire
LAZINESS:
Laziness
is
the
mother
of
all
evils.
Sophocles
LEAD:
The
first
duty
of
a
leader
is
to
lead.
Theodore
Roosevelt
LEADERSHIP, PROJECTION: A leader is a person who has an unusual degree of power to project on
other people, his or her own shadow, or his or her light. Parker Palmer
LEADERSHIP:
If
you
want
to
(need
to,
must!)
lead,
then
you
can.
It’s
easier
than
ever
and
we
need
you.
But
if
this
isn’t
the
right
moment,
if
this
isn’t
the
right
cause,
then
hold
off.
Seth
Godin,
Tribes
LEADERSHIP: Leadership is not magnetic personality . . . it is not making friends and influencing
people – that is salesmanship. Peter Drucker
LEADERSHIP: Leadership is the lifting of a man’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a man’s
performance to a higher standard, the building of a man’s personality beyond its normal limitations.
Peter Drucker
LEADERSHIP: No one’s a leader if there are no followers. Malcolm Forbes
LEADERSHIP: T he first thing you people need to know about leadership is that most ofyou simply
don’t have it in you. Coach Bobby Knight (speaking to a college course of business majors)
LEADERSHIP: The foundation of effective leadership is thinking through the organization’s mission,
defining it, and establishing it clearly and visibly. Peter Drucker
LEADERSHIP: The leader sets the goals, sets the priorities, and sets and maintains the standards.
Peter Drucker
LEADERSHIP: The leader’s first task is to be the trumpet that sounds a clear sound. Peter Drucker
LEADERSHIP: The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers. Peter Drucker
LEADERSHIP:
There
is
always
a
tendency
to
believe
that
a
hundred
small
men
can
furnish
leadership
equal
to
that
of
one
big
man.
That
is
not
so
.
.
.
Nothing
can
fully
take
the
place
of
the
indispensable
work
of
leadership.
Theodore
Roosevelt
LEADERSHIP:
What
a
great
stateman
must
be
most
anxious
to
produce
is
a
certain
moral
character
is
his
fellow
citizens,
namely
a
disposition
to
virtue
and
the
performance
of
virtuous
actions.
Aristotle,
Ethics
LEADERSHIP:
Whenever
I
meet
a
Buddhist
leader,
I
meet
a
holy
man.
Whenever
I
meet
a
Christian
leader,
I
meet
a
manager.
(anonymous)
LEADERSHIP: Without committed followers, you have nothing but a title. Tom Atchison
LEADERSHIP:
A
leader
is
best
when
people
barely
know
he
exists;
not
so
good
when
people
obey
and
admire
him;
worst
when
they
despise
him.
Lao‐tzu
LEARINING,
FREEDOM:
Liberty
without
learning
is
always
in
peril,
learning
without
liberty
is
always
in
vain.
John
F.
Kennedy
LEARN: Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. T.H. Huxley
LEARNING FOCUS: the whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a
thousand things well. Horace Walpole
LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE, FAILURE TO: A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to
cash in on the experience. Elbert Hubbard
LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE, FAILURE TO: Human beings, who are almost unqiue in having the
ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to
do so. Douglas Adams
LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE, FAILURE TO: One never believes other people’s experience, and one is
only very gradually convinced by one’s own. Vita Sackville-West
LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE, FAILURE TO: That men do not learn very much from the lessons of
history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. Aldous Huxley
LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE, FAILURE TO: We learn from experience that men never learn from
experience. George Bernard Shaw
LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE, FAILURE TO: What experience and history teach is this—that nations
and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have
drawn from it. G.W.F. Hegel
LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE: Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it
again. Franklin P. Jones.
LEARNING:
Learning
is
what
survives
when
what
has
been
learned
has
been
forgotten.
B.F.
Skinner
LEARNING: I didn’t begin to learn anything until after I had finished my studies. Anatole Francois
Thibault
LEARNING:
I
hear
and
I
forget,
I
see
and
I
remember,
I
do
and
I
understand.
Chinese
proverb
LEARNING: If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you, you are embarking on something
which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all . . . One reason why it needs no special
education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. C.S. Lewis
LEARNING: it is essential to continually challenge ourselves. The only way to develop is to venture into
the unknown, to take risks and to learn new things. Gary Kasparov
LEARNING:
Never
seem
wiser,
nor
more
learned,
than
the
people
you
are
with.
Wear
your
learning
like
your
watch,
in
a
private
pocket;
do
not
pull
it
out
and
strike
it
merely
to
show
you
have
one.
Lord
Chesterfield
LEARNING: The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled
high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think and act
anew. Abraham Lincoln
LEARNING:
The
only
person
who
is
educated
is
the
one
who
has
learned
how
to
learn
.
.
.
and
change.
Carl
Rogers
LEARNING: To live is not to learn but to apply. Legouve
LEARNING: The one time you are surely learning something is when you are nervously attempting
something new, even if it is simply solving a routine problem in a novel way. Gary Kasparov
LEARNING: The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were
when we created them. Albert Einstein
LEFT BIAS: What I remember most about college is that I could do and write the silliest things and
receive plaudits, as long as my lunacy was leftward. Marvin Olasky
LEGACY:
Generations
may
be
judged
by
their
epic
battles
or
their
grand
contributions
to
the
history
of
humanity,
but
individuals,
for
the
most
part,
are
judged
on
the
sum
of
smaller
deeds.
Ethan
Watters,
Urban
Tribes
LEGACY: If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth
reading or do things worth the writing. Benjamin Franklin
LEGACY:
It
is
a
good
thing
to
die
in
the
harness
at
the
zenith
of
one’s
fame,
with
the
consciousness
of
having
lived
a
long,
honorable
and
useful
life.
After
we
are
dead
it
will
make
not
the
slightest
difference
whether
men
speak
well
or
ill
of
us.
But
in
the
days
or
hours
before
dying
it
must
be
pleasant
to
feel
that
you
have
done
your
part
as
a
man
.
.
.
and
that
your
children
and
children’s
children,
in
short
all
those
that
are
dearest
to
you,
have
just
cause
for
pride
in
your
actions.
Theodore
Roosevelt
LEGALISM: Rightful moral outrage easily mutates into self-deceptive moral smugness. Miroslav Volf
LEGALISM: Some Christian groups, however, focus so narrowly on what offends them that they fail to
comprehend the mentality of the marginalized – the very people they are especially obligated to reach.
Darren Sarisky
LIBERALISM:
A
God
without
wrath
brought
men
without
sin
into
a
kingdom
without
judgment
through
the
ministrations
of
a
Christ
without
a
cross.
Richard
Niebuhr,
theologian
LIES,
TRUTH:
I’m
not
a
liar
.
.
.
I
am
gifted
in
fiction.
David
Mamet
in
the
film,
State
and
Main
LIFE
CHANNELS:
Dwell
as
near
as
possible
to
the
channel
in
which
your
life
flows.
Thoreau
LIFE LONG LEARNING: (This is about Theodore Roosevelt.) Learning was literally a vital part of
Roosevelt’s leadership. His preparation for leadership through self-mastery began with books at his
side. His years of leadership were constantly informed and enlarged by reading and writing,
conversation, correspondence, and an extraordinarily broad . . . quest for experience. Roosevelt
understood that a leader must continuously learn if he is to remain an effective teacher. TR’s approach
to learning unified his forays into the realms of thought and action; it also bound together his life and
his leadership. Roosevelt’s thirst for learning was never quenched. James M. Strock
LIFE LONG LEARNING: (This is about Theodore Roosevelt.) There is apparent throughout his life a
surprising determination. The energies and talents he possessed were not placed at birth in some
natural harmony; they were though the passing years organized and directed by a sustained and
splendid act of will. Elting Morison.
LIFE
LONG
LEARNING:
As
soon
as
any
man
has
ceased
to
be
able
to
learn,
his
usefulness
as
a
teacher
is
at
an
end.
When
he
himself
can’t
learn,
he
has
reached
the
stage
where
other
people
can
learn
from
him.
Theodore
Roosevelt
LIFE LONG LEARNING: Associate with those you can learn from. Let friendly relations be a school of
erudition, and conversation be refined teaching. Make your friends your teachers and blend the
usefulness of learning with the pleasure of conversation. Enjoy the company of people of understanding
. . . We have little to live and much to know and you cannot live if you do not know. It takes
uncommon skill to study and learn . . . Choose a subject and let those around you serve up
quintessential knowledge . . . Make knowledge your friend. Baltasr Gracian, 1650
LIFE LONG LEARNING: Continual learning and growth is critical for leaders. We serve changing
organizations in a changing world… We can easily become so busy leading and serving that we do not
take the time for renewal and growth. Study, learning and continued renewal are essential to
leadership… it is difficult to lead when we are not growing. New learning is empowering. It is renewing
and creates the energy needed for leadership. Leaders must carve out time for their own learning and
growth even as they expect it of the people they lead. Walter Wright
LIFE LONG LEARNING: Do not let all your learning lead to knowledge; let it lead to action. Proverb
LIFE LONG LEARNING: Hanging out on Planet Earth as a human invites the opportunity to learn and
grow. Every day is chock-full of chances. Marcia Hughes, Emotionally Intelligent Teams
LIFE LONG LEARNING: I keep learning. Francisco de Goya, written when he was long deaf, old and
infirm, on one of his last drawings.
LIFE LONG LEARNING: Increasingly, an educated person will be somebody who has learned how to
learn. Peter Drucker.
LIFE
LONG
LEARNING:
No
man
has
the
right
to
be
ignorant.
Louis
L'Amour
LIFE LONG LEARNING: That is one of the grat secrets of becoming a great leader – never stop
becoming. Jeff O’Leary
LIFE LONG LEARNING: There is a theory of human behavior that says people subconsciously retard
their own intellectual growth. They come to rely on clichés and habits. Once they reach the age of
their own personal comfort with the world, they stop learning and their mind runs on idle for the rest
of their days. They may progress organizationally, they may be ambitious and eager, and they may
even work night and day. But they learn no more. The bigoted, the narrow-minded, the stubborn, and
the perpetually optimistic have all stopped learning. Philip Crosby
LIFE PURPOSE: The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful,
to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. Leo Rosten
LIFE: As a well spend day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. Leonardo da
Vinci
LIFE: I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have
lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman
LIFE: I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. Henry David Thoreau
LIFE: In a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most useful thing a Christian can do is to
live… this life alone can break the illusions of the modern world by showing everyone the utter
powerlessness of a mechanistic view. Jacques Ellul, the Presence of the Kingdom
LIFE: life is a long lesson in humility. James Barrie
LIFE: Life is a mystery, love is a delight. Therefore I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for
nothing less than the infinite mystery and the infinite delight. Walker Percy
LIFE:
Lord,
let
me
live
until
I
die.
Thea
Bowman,
who
offered
this
prayer
when
she
found
out
she
had
cancer
LIFE:
Only
those
are
fit
to
live
who
do
not
fear
to
die;
and
none
are
fit
to
die
who
have
shrunk
from
the
joy
of
life
and
the
duty
of
life.
Theodore
Roosevelt
LIFE: People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin
LIFE: The average man, who does not know what to do with this life, wants another one which shall
last forever. Anatole Francois Thibault
LIFE: The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong
them. I shall use my time. Jack London
LIFE: We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. David RusselL
LIFE: You can get all A’s and still flunk life. Walker Percy
LISTENING:
Genuine
listening
is
rare.
All
too
often,
we
find
others
uninteresting
or
irrelevant
when
they
fail
to
say
what
we
want
to
hear.
David
Dark,
Sacred
of
Questioning
Everything
Listening:
Someone
once
asked
Joan
of
Arc
why
God
spoke
only
to
her.
She
responded,
‘Sir,
you
are
wrong.
God
speaks
to
everyone.
I
just
listen.’
LITERATURE: By turns sardonically funny, anguished, or burning in slow fury, Solzhenitsyn
accomplished something truly rare in all literature, the moral impaling of an entire political system
with sustained literary power. David Aikman
LITTLE
THINGS:
it
is
the
little
things
that
run
the
world.
E.
O.
Wilson,
Harvard
insect
biologist
LITTLE THINGS: The only road is the Little Way . . . the only way do go great things is to choose to
treat of little things well. Walker Percy.
LIVING:
I
don’t
want
to
get
to
the
end
of
my
life
and
find
that
I
have
lived
just
the
length
of
it.
I
want
to
have
lived
the
width
of
it
as
well.
Diane
Ackerman
LIVING:
I
wanted
to
live
deep
and
suck
out
all
the
marrow
of
life.
Thoreau
LIVING:
I
would
rather
be
ashes
than
dust!
I
would
rather
that
my
spark
should
burn
out
in
a
brilliant
blaze
than
it
should
be
stifled
by
dry‐rot.
I
would
rather
be
a
superb
meteor,
every
atom
of
me
in
magnificent
glow
than
a
sleepy
and
permanent
planet.
The
proper
function
of
man
is
to
live,
not
to
exist.
Jack
London
LONELINESS:
If
you
are
lonely
while
you're
alone,
you
are
in
bad
company.
Jean‐Paul
Sartre
Loneliness:
Nothing
makes
us
so
lonely
as
our
secrets.
Paul
Tournier
LONLINESS:
As
long
as
the
human
being
is
lonely,
all
of
the
good
of
creation
cannot
sate
him.
As
long
as
the
human
being
has
no
one
with
whom
to
share
her
experiences,
as
long
as
the
human
being
feels
alienated,
separate
from,
and
empty,
then
all
of
the
objective
goods
of
the
universe
will
be
irrelevant.
That
is
the
experience
of
loneliness
–
to
feel
apart
from,
severed
from,
alienated,
and
empty.
Rabbi
Marc
Gafni
LONLINESS:
We
have
all
known
the
long
loneliness
and
we
have
learned
that
the
oly
solution
is
love
and
that
love
comes
with
community.
Dorothy
Day
LOOKING AHEAD: The secret of success in war is learning what lies on the other side of the hill. Duke
of Wellington
LORDSHIP
OF
CHRIST:
There
is
not
a
single
inch
of
the
whole
terrain
of
our
human
existence
over
which
Christ
does
not
proclaim,
Mine,
Mine,
Mine.
Abraham
Kuyper
LORDSHIP:
There
is
not
a
square
inch
in
the
whole
domain
of
our
human
existence
over
which
Christ,
who
is
sovereign
over
all,
does
not
cry,
“Mine.”
Abraham
Kuyper
LOVE
OF
GOD:
All
my
studies,
my
vigils,
and
my
labors
have
been
for
love
of
Thee.
Thomas
Aquinas
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES: “I don’t like that man. I’m going to have to get to know him better.” Abraham
Lincoln
LOVE:
there
is
no
better
laboratory
for
learning
to
love
than
ministry.
There
is
also
no
better
place
to
learn
the
art
of
forgiveness
than
in
the
life
of
the
church.
The
church
is
filled
with
people.
People
are
broken
and
sinful.
Spend
enough
time
in
the
church
and
you
will
be
hurt.
Kevin
Harney,
Leadership
From
the
Inside
Out
LOVE:
Fall
in
love,
stay
in
love,
and
it
will
decide
everything.
Pedro
Arrupe
LOVE:
God
wants
us
to
love
him
eternally
with
our
whole
hearts
–
not
in
such
a
way
as
to
weaken
our
earthly
love,
but
to
provide
a
kind
of
cantus
firmus
to
which
the
other
melodies
of
life
provide
their
counterpoint.
Dietrich
Bonhoeffer
LOVE:
I
am
a
baby
Christian
when
it
comes
to
loving,
I
am
just
learning.
So
far
were
my
daily
thoughts
from
loving
people
that
I
have
a
lifelong
vocation
now
before
me
in
learning
how
to
find
Christ
in
every
single
person
whom
I
meet.
Anne
Rice,
Called
out
of
Darkness
LOVE:
If
we
are
going
to
lead
like
Jesus,
we
must
let
the
dangerous
power
of
love
to
fill
our
lives.
Kevin
Harney,
Leadership
From
the
Inside
Out
LOVE:
If
you
love
someone,
set
them
free.
If
they
come
back
they
are
yours;
if
they
don’t,
they
never
were.
Buddhist
Proverb
LOVE:
It
is
probably
impossible
to
love
any
human
being
simply
too
much.
We
may
love
him
too
much
in
proportion
to
our
love
for
God;
but
it
is
the
smallness
of
our
love
for
god,
not
the
greatness
of
our
love
for
the
man
that
constitutes
the
inordinacy.
C.S.
Lewis
LOVE:
Late
have
I
loved
you,
beauty
so
old
and
so
new;
late
have
I
loved
you.
Augustine,
Confessions.
LOVE:
Love
anything
and
your
heart
will
certainly
be
wrung
and
possibly
broken.
If
you
want
to
make
sure
of
keeping
it
intact,
you
must
give
your
heart
to
no
one,
not
even
to
an
animal.
Wrap
it
carefully
round
with
hobbies
and
little
luxuries,
avoid
all
entanglements,
lock
it
up
safe
in
the
casket
or
coffin
of
your
selfishness.
But
in
that
casket
–
safe,
dark,
motionless,
airless
–
it
will
change.
It
will
not
be
broken,
it
will
become
unbreakable,
impenetrable,
irredeemable.
The
alternative
to
tragedy,
or
at
least
to
the
risk
of
tragedy
is
damnation.
C.S.
Lewis
LOVE:
Reordered
love
implanted
in
a
transformed
heart
is
the
distinctive
mark
of
the
Christian.
David
Naugel,
Reordered
Love,
Reordered
Lives
LOVE:
Such
is
each
one
as
is
his
love.
Augustine
LOVE:
The
measure
of
love
is
to
love
without
measure.
St.
Francis
de
Sales
LOVE:
The
worth
and
excellency
of
a
soul
is
to
be
measured
by
the
object
of
its
love.
Henry
Scougal,
17th
century
Puritan
pastor.
LOVE: There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. Mother Teresa
LOVE:
To
love
at
all
is
to
be
vulnerable.
Love
anything,
and
your
heart
will
certainly
be
wrung
and
possibly
broken.
C.S.
Lewis
LOVE:
To
practice
the
daily
love
of
neighbor
and
enemy
calls
into
question
one’s
smallest
and
greatest
competitive
feelings,
one’s
common
angry
reactions
to
slights
both
great
and
small.
Anne
Rice,
Called
out
of
Darkness
LOVE:
Too
late
have
I
loved
Thee.
Augustine
LOVING
GOD:
Is
it
easy
to
love
God?
It
is
easy
to
those
who
do
it.
C.S.
Lewis
LUCK: Luck is not a reliable strategy. . Jim Collins, How the Mighty Fall
Lukewarm:
We
have
daintily
gone
to
church
while
living
like
the
rest
of
the
world.
Richard
Rohr
MAN:
A
man
is
a
measure
of
all
things:
of
what
is,
that
it
is,
and
of
what
is
not,
that
it
is
not.
Protagoras
MANAGEMENT: I am the world’s worst manager. Peter Drucker
MARRIAGE:
In
domestic
affairs
I
defer
to
my
wife
Katie.
Otherwise
I
am
led
by
the
Holy
Ghost.
Martin
Luther
MARRIAGE: The problem is, of course, that we are not naturally very good at the love which will make
a long marriage beautiful – even when we try. Dick Keyes, Seeing Through Cynicism
MARRIAGE: To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the living cup, Whenever you’re wrong
admit it, Whenever you’re right, shut up. Ogden Nash
MEANING: The map is not the territory. Count Korzybski
MEANING: Words don’t mean, people mean.
MEDIOCRITY: The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of
mediocrity is chronic inconsistency. . Jim Collins, How the Mighty Fall
MEDIOCRITY:
There’s
just
so
much
mediocrity
that
my
average
talent
stands
out
as
great.
Billy
Joel
MEDIUM: The medium is the message. Marshall McLuhan
MEETINGS: If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and
never will achieve its full potential, that word would be meetings. Dave Barry
MEETINGS: Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything. John Kenneth Galbraith
MEETINGS: Peple who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. Thomas Sowell
MEMBERSHIP:
I
refuse
to
join
any
club
that
would
have
me
as
a
member.
Mark
Twain
MEMBERSHIP:
I
refuse
to
live
in
any
country
that
would
elect
me
to
public
office.
James
Carville
MEMORY:
A
clear
conscience
is
usually
a
sign
of
bad
memory.
Steve
Wright,
comedian
MEN:
Men
are
mostly
afraid
of
being
afraid.
William
Pollack,
In
a
Time
of
Fallen
Heroes
MEN: Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we can
civilization was the domestication of the human male. Max Lerner
MENTOR:
Those
who
can
do.
Those
who
believe
others
can
also,
teach
(mentor).
John
E.
King,
lawyer,
aphorist
MENTOR:
If
I
have
seen
further,
it
is
by
standing
on
the
shoulders
of
giants.
Newton
MENTORING:
Master
bridge
builders
are
ideal
teachers
who
use
themselves
as
bridges
over
which
they
invite
their
students
to
cross,
then,
having
facilitated
their
crossing,
joyfully
collapse,
encouraging
them
to
create
bridges
of
their
own.
MENTORING: Mentoring is not crating someone in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to
create themselves. Steven Spielberg.
MENTORING: The overall intent is tot each the protégé how to think correctly as a leader. Ninety-five
percent of mentoring is about helping the protégé develop proper thinking. Chris Brady
MENTORING:
The
teacher
is
the
needle
and
the
disciple
is
the
thread.
Zen
proverb
MESSY and MYSTERIOUS: Our broken world is poised on a precarious fulcrum and wobbles between
glory and the grotesque, beauty and brokenness, grace and tragedy. Saints are those who live their
faith close to this tottering hinge. James Smith
METRICS:
Bigness
doesn’t
automatically
translate
into
success,
but
neither
does
smallness
automatically
equal
godliness.
Dave
Gibbons,
The
Monkey
and
the
Fish
METRICS:
Numbers
aren’t
bad
by
themselves,
but
maybe
what
we’re
counting
is.
Dave
Gibbons,
The
Monkey
and
the
Fish
MID-LIFE CRISIS: We hear a great deal of talk about the midlife crisis of the executive. It is mostly
boredom. At 45, most executives have reached the peak of their business careers, and they know it.
After 20 years of doing very much the same kind of work, they are very good at their jobs. But they are
not learning or contributing or deriving challenge and satisfaction from the job. And yet they are still
likely to face another 20 if not 25 years of work. That is why managing oneself increasingly leads one to
begin a second career. Peter Drucker, “Managing Oneself”
MIDDLE AGE: Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds
you of someone else. Ogden Nash
MIDDLE AGE: Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. Bob Hope
MIND:
A
mind,
like
a
home,
is
furnished
by
its
owner,
so
if
one’s
life
is
cold
and
bare
he
can
blame
none
but
himself.
Louis
L’
Amour
MINORITY: My type of thinking is not wanted in the present age, I have to swim so strongly against the
tide. Wittgenstein
MISSION,
PURPOSE:
Do
you
want
to
sell
sugar
water
for
the
rest
of
your
life,
or
do
you
want
to
change
the
world?
Steve
Jobs
challenging
John
Sculley
to
leave
Pepsi
and
come
work
for
Apple
MISSION: The vocation of the church ist o perform the practices of Christ in ways that are both
appropriate to and transformative of our particular place and time. Kevin Vanhoozer
MISTAKES: I would never promote a man into a top level job who has not made mistakes, and big ones
at that. Otherwise, he is sure to be mediocre. Peter Drucker
MODELING THE WAY: Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Modeling:
There
is
but
one
way
to
train
up
a
child
in
the
way
he
should
go,
and
that
is
to
travel
it
yourself.
Abraham
Lincoln
MODELS: All models are worng; some models are useful. George E.P. Box
MODERNITY:
Nearly
all
that
I
loved
[poetry,
beauty,
mythology]
I
believed
to
be
imaginary;
nearly
all
that
I
believed
to
be
real
[mechanistic
materialism]
I
thought
grim
and
meaningless.
C.S.
Lewis
Surprised
by
Joy
MODERNITY:
If
anything
characterizes
modernity
it
is
the
loss
of
the
sense
of
transcendence
–
of
a
reality
that
exceeds
and
encompasses
our
everyday
affairs.
Peter
Berger,
quoted
in
the
Soul
of
Christianity
Money:
Just
the
very
act
of
letting
go
of
money,
or
some
other
treasure
does
something
within
us.
It
destroys
the
demon
‘greed.’
Richard
Foster
MORALITY:
Externals
are
not
under
my
control;
moral
choice
is
under
my
control.
Where
am
I
to
look
for
the
good
and
the
evil?
Within
me,
in
that
which
is
my
own.
Epictetus,
Discourses
MOTHERS: Women are always like their mothers; that is their tragedy. Men are never like their
mothers, and that is theirs. Oscar Wilde
MOTIVATION: Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you,
chances are it will burn very briefly. Stephen Covey
MOTIVATION: Study while others are sleeping, work while others are loafing, prepare while others are
playing, and dream while others are wishing. William Ward
MOTIVATION: Those who take active responsibility to foster their motivation on a regular basis will
outperform those who do not. It is the responsibility of the leader to keep him or herself hungry on a
regular basis. Chris Brady
MOTIVE:
God
regards
not
the
greatness
of
the
work,
but
the
love
with
which
it
is
performed.
Brother
Lawrence
MOVIES:
Movies
do
not
only
portray
a
world;
they
propagate
a
worldview.
Bryan
Stone
MOZART:
I
even
have
to
confess
that
if
I
ever
get
to
heaven,
I
would
first
seek
out
Mozart,
and
only
then
inquire
after
Augustine,
St.
Thomas,
Luther,
Calvin
and
Schleiermacher.
Karl
Barth
MUSIC: There have always been cultures without counting, cultures without painting, cultures bereft
of the wheel or the written word, but never a culture without music. John Barrow, The Artful Universe
Expanded
MUSIC:
I
have
no
use
for
cranks
who
despise
music,
because
it
is
a
gift
of
God.
Next
after
theology,
I
give
to
music
the
highest
place
and
the
greatest
honor.
Martin
Luther
MUSIC:
Music
doesn’t
just
happen,
it
is
what
we
make
it,
and
what
we
make
of
it.
People
think
through
music,
decide
who
they
are
through
it,
express
themselves
through
it
.
.
.
It
is
less
a
‘something’
than
a
way
of
knowing
the
world,
a
way
of
being
ourselves.
Nicholas
Cook
MUSIC:
Music
is
“the
inarticulate
speech
of
the
heart.”
Van
Morrison
MUSIC: People think through music, decide who they are through it, express themselves through it . . .
it is less a something than a way of knowing the world, a way of being ourselves. Nicholas Cook
MUSIC: The harmony of the spheres has collapsed into the song of the self. Daniel Chua
MUSIC:
The
harmony
of
the
spheres
has
collapsed
into
the
song
of
the
self.
Daniel
Chua
MUSIC:
The
ultimate
end
of
final
purpose
of
all
music
.
.
.
is
nothing
other
than
the
praise
of
God
and
the
recreation
of
the
soul.
Bach
MUSIC:
There
have
been
cultures
without
counting,
cultures
without
painting,
cultures
bereft
of
the
wheel
or
the
written
word,
but
never
a
culture
without
music.
John
Barrow
MUSIC:
Where
words
fail,
music
speaks.
Hans
Christian
Andersen
MYSTICS:
in
the
days
ahead
you
either
be
a
mystic
who
has
experienced
God,
or
nothing
at
all.
Karl
Rahner,
theologian
MYSTICS:
Only
mystics,
clowns
and
artists
in
my
experience
speak
the
truth
.
.
.
I
find
myself
in
complete
agreement
with
those
who
wish
to
reinstate
the
mystics,
the
clowns
and
artist
alongside
the
scholars.
To
modify
Wittgenstein;
what
we
cannot
imagine,
we
must
confine
to
silence
and
unbelief.
Malcolm
Muggeridge
MYTH-MAKING. (Myth-making) is also a very active secular and adacemic pastime – and a human one
as well; perhaps it is some kind of human necessity. Dallas Willard, Knowing Christ Today
NEEDINESS:
Nothing
about
us
except
our
neediness
is,
inthis
life,
permanent.
C.S.
Lewis
NETWORKING:
I
used
to
say
that
networking
is
the
most
underrated
management
skill.
Now
I
believe
it
may
be
the
most
important
management
skill,
bar
none.
Haravey
Mackay,
Swim
with
the
Sharks
NEW IDEAS: history warns us . . . that it is the customary fate of new truths to bein as heresies and to
end as superstitions. T.H. Huxley
NOBLE: In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, good will. Churchill
OBSTACLES:
A
hero
is
an
ordinary
individual
who
finds
the
strength
to
persevere
and
endure
in
spite
of
overwhelming
obstacles.
Christopher
Reeve
OBSTACLES:
If
you
can
find
a
path
with
no
obstacles,
it
probably
doesn't
lead
anywhere.
Frank
A.
Clark
OBSTACLES:
Obstacles
are
those
frightful
things
you
see
when
you
take
your
eyes
off
the
goal.
Author
Unknown
OBSTACLES:
Obstacles
don't
have
to
stop
you.
If
you
run
into
a
wall,
don't
turn
around
and
give
up.
Figure
out
how
to
climb
it,
go
through
it,
or
work
around
it.
Michael
Jordan
OBSTACLES:
One
who
gains
strength
by
overcoming
obstacles
possesses
the
only
strength
which
can
overcome
adversity.
Albert
Schweitzer
OBSTACLES:
The
block
of
granite
which
is
an
obstacle
in
the
pathway
of
the
weak
becomes
a
stepping‐
stone
in
the
pathway
of
the
strong.
Thomas
Carlyle
OBSTACLES:
The
obstacle
is
the
path.
Zen
Buddhist
Saying
OBSTACLES:
We
find
no
real
satisfaction
or
happiness
in
life
without
obstacles
to
conquer
and
goals
to
achieve.
Maxwell
Maltz
OFFEND: don’t offend the people who count and don’t count the people who offend. Amy Brennan
ONE LIFE: If we’ve only got one try, if we’ve only got one life, if time was never on our side, then before I
die, I want to burn out bright. Jon Foreman, Burn Out Bright.
OPINIONS, OF PEOPLE: All men have a natural fear of making a mistake – by believing too well of a
person. However, the error of believing too ill of a person is perhaps not feared, at least not in the
same degree as the other. Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love
OPINIONS: Opinions are the stock in trade of thoughtful people, to be earned and held strongly until
further evidence requires their modification. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words
OPINIONS: Perhaps the best we can do in our efforts to tell the truth is to take the measure of our own
slant on it and be accountable for our point of view. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words
OPPORTUNITIES, MISSED: Alas for those who never sing, but die with all their music in them. Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Sr.
OPPORTUNITY, WORK ETHIC: Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks
like work. Thomas Edison
OPPORTUNITY: if opportunity isn’t provided at a young age, it can be created later in adulthood
through discipline and imaginative involvement in the pursuits we care about. You can – and must –
look for ways to experiment and to push the boundaries of your capacity in different areas. Gary
Kasparov
OPPORTUNITY: Opportunity favors the prepared mind. If opportunity knocks at the door you have to
open it. You have to be receptive to it and I was. Peter Drucker
OPPORTUNITY:
The
reason
so
many
people
never
get
anywhere
in
life
is
because
when
opportunity
knocks,
they
are
out
in
the
backyard
looking
for
four
leaf
clovers.
Walter
P.
Chrysler
OPPOSITION: Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I
am contradicted. Ralph Waldo Emerson
OPTIMISM:
When
pessimistic
people
run
into
obstacles
they
give
up.
When
optimistic
people
encounter
obstacles,
they
try
harder.
Martin
Seligman
OPTIMIST:
What
is
an
optimist?
.
.
.
He
or
she
is
a
person
who
has
the
conviction
that
god
knows,
can
do,
and
will
do
what
is
best
for
mankind.
Pedro
Arrupe,
One
Jesuit’s
Spiritual
Journey
ORAL CULTURES: The strongly oral cast of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures bespeaks a culture not
only temporally but temperamentally quite different from ours, with a sense of the world and a
psychological structure which is different not merely by reason of position in time and of social
institutions generally but also specifically by reason of the way in the way in which it is oriented
toward the word itself. Walter Ong, The Presence of the Word
ORATORY:
Of
all
the
talents
bestowed
upon
men,
none
is
so
precious
as
the
gift
of
oratory
.
.
.
Abandoned
by
party,
betrayed
by
is
friends,
stripped
of
his
offices,
whoever
can
command
this
power
is
still
formidable.
Theodore
Roosevelt
PACE
OF
LIFE:
There
is
more
to
life
than
increasing
its
speed.
Mahatma
Ghandhi
PAIN:
We
must
embrace
pain
and
burn
it
as
fuel
for
our
journey.
Kenji
Miyazawa
PARADIGM
CHANGE:
Humans
seem
to
have
a
predisposition
to
be
open
and
curious
about
new
theories,
but
it
also
seems
true
that
they
do
not
abandon
old
theories
until
convinced
the
new
ones
are
better
–
that
is,
more
useful,
compact,
and
accurate.
Paul
Lawrence,
Driven
PARADIGMS: All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules
for normal research. As the process develops, the anomaly comes to be more generally recognized as
such, more attention is devoted to it by more of the field’s eminent authorities. The field begins to
look quite different; scientists express explicit discontent, competing articulations of the paradigm
proliferate and scholars view a resolution as the subject matter of their discipline. Thomas Kuhm, The
Structure of Scientific Revolutions
PARADOX:
How
wonderful
that
we
have
met
with
paradox.
Now
we
have
some
hope
of
making
progress.
Niels
Bohr
PARTNERSHIP:
You
can
do
something
I
can’t
do.
I
can
do
something
you
can’t
do.
Together,
let
us
do
something
beautiful
for
God.
Mother
Teresa
PASSION:
Don’t
ask
yourself
what
the
world
needs;
ask
yourself
what
makes
you
come
alive.
And
then
go
and
do
that.
Because
what
the
world
needs
is
people
who
have
come
alive.
Howard
Thurman
PASSION: I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in
life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of
for the moment; and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations. George Bernard Shaw
PASSION: I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant
blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in
magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. George Bernard Shaw
PASSION: In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an
encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the
inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer
PASSION: It is stern work, it is perilous work to thrust your hand in the sun and pull out a spark of
immortal flames to warm the hearts of men. Joyce Kilmer
PASSION: Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. Jean de la
Fontaine
PASSION:
Passion
is
a
good
thing
only
as
long
as
we
realize
that
too
much
of
a
good
thing
is
bad.
PASSION:
Seek
out
that
particular
mental
attitude
which
makes
you
feel
most
deeply
and
vitally
alive…
and
when
you
have
found
that
attitude,
follow
it.
William
James
PASSIONS,
AFFECTIONS:
The
deepest
things
we
know
are
found
in
the
form
of
defining
affections
and
passions.
A
person
or
a
society
is
better
known
through
what
is
feared,
love,
grieved
over,
and
hoped
for
than
through
its
factually
stated
ideas
and
thoughts.
Don
Saliers,
professor
PASTORS:
he
must
be
of
a
high
and
great
spirit
that
undertakes
to
serve
the
people
in
body
and
soul,
for
he
must
suffer
the
utmost
danger
and
unthankfulness.
Martin
Luther.
PASTORS:
Pastors
are
supposed
to
be
more
than
lost
travelers
with
more
questions
than
answers.
DeYoung,
Why
We’re
Not
Emergent
PATTERNS: All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Tolstoy,
Anna Karenina
PEACE,
LACK
OF
INNER:
Those
who
are
at
war
with
others
are
not
at
peace
with
themselves.
William
Hazlitt
PEACE:
Go
placidly
amid
the
noise
and
the
haste
and
remember
what
peace
there
may
be
in
silence.
As
far
as
possible
without
surrender,
be
on
good
terms
with
all
persons.
Max
Ehrmann,
Desiderata
PEOPLE:
it’s
all
about
the
people
has
always
meant,
It’s
not
about
me.
It’s
about
us
and
what
we
can
do
together.
Howard
Behar
PEOPLE:
To
handle
yourself,
use
your
head.
To
handle
others,
use
your
heart.
Eleanor
Roosevelt
People:
You
can
tell
a
lot
about
which
direction
your
life
is
heading
by
looking
at
the
people
with
whom
you’ve
chosen
to
spend
your
time
and
share
your
ideas.
John
Maxwell
PERCEPTION: The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust
PERFECTION:
Perfection
consists
in
doing
His
will,
in
being
what
He
wills
us
to
be.
Therese
of
Lisieux
PERFORMANCE:
Words
are
words,
explanations
are
explanations,
promises
are
promises
–
but
only
performance
is
reality.
Harold
Geneen,
CEO
of
ITT
PERSEVERANCE:
So
we
must
daily
keep
things
wound:
that
is,
we
must
pray
when
prayer
seems
dry
as
dust;
we
must
write
when
we
are
physically
tired,
when
our
hearts
are
heavy,
when
our
bodies
are
in
pain.
We
may
not
always
be
able
to
make
our
“clock”
run
correctly,
but
at
least
we
can
keep
it
wound,
so
that
it
will
not
forget.
Madeleine
L’Engle,
Walking
on
Water
PERSONAL GROWTH: In the area of personal growth, the operative fundamental is that the lesson
continues until the lesson is learned. If an organization is not moving forward, it is because the leader
is not addressing the issues in his or her path.
PERSPECTIVE,
LIMITED.
Because
we
cannot
see
the
paths
we
have
not
taken,
we
become,
by
default,
advocates
for
the
path
our
life
is
on.
Ethan
Watters,
Urban
Tribes
PERSPECTIVE:
A
proper
perspective
is
worth
50
IQ
points.
Dave
Gibbons,
The
Monkey
and
the
Fish
PERSPECTIVE:
I
cannot
go
on
.
.
.
All
that
I
have
written
seems
to
me
like
so
much
straw
compared
to
what
I
have
seen
and
what
has
been
revealed
to
me.
Thomas
Aquinas
PERSPECTIVE: Perspective is a view of things in their true relationship or importance. Webster Dict.
PERSPECTIVE: The difference between leaders and followers is perspective. The difference between
leaders and effective leaders is better perspective. Effective leaders have better perspective. J.
Robert Clinton
PERSPECTIVE:
You
see
things
from
here
that
you
don’t
see
from
there.
Ariel
Sharon,
about
his
change
in
the
Palestinian
issue
once
he
became
Prime
Minister
of
Israel
PERSUASION:
I
simply
made
up
my
mind
what
they
ought
to
think,
and
then
did
my
best
to
get
them
to
think
it.
Theodore
Roosevelt
PESSIMISM: the secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
Bertrand Russell
PETS: You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. Nora Ephron
PLANNING: I see only one move ahead, but it is always the correct one. Jose Paul Capablanca, Third
World Chess Champion, Cuban
PLANNING:
In
preparing
for
battle,
I
have
always
found
that
plans
are
useless,
but
planning
is
indispensable.
Dwight
D.
Eisenhower
PLANNING:
Your
lack
of
prior
planning
does
not
constitute
an
emergency
on
my
part.
PLAY:
The
joy
of
life
is
a
very
good
thing,
and
while
work
is
the
essential
in
it,
play
also
has
its
palce.
Theodore
Roosevelt
POET:
A
poet’s
work
is
to
name
the
unnameable,
to
point
at
frauds,
to
take
sies,
start
arguments,
shape
the
world,
and
stop
it
from
going
to
sleep.
Salman
Rushdie
POETIC:
The
poetic
word
need
not
be
a
high‐sounding
phrase.
David
Dark,
Sacred
of
Questioning
Everything
POETRY,
WORDS:
Words
must
be
the
ordinary
words
that
we
hear
about
us
to
which
the
imagination
must
give
an
iridescence.
Then
only
are
words
really
poetic.
Robert
Frost
POETRY:
Today
the
only
poetry
worthy
of
the
name
is
eschatological,
that
is,
poetry
which
rejects
the
present
inhuman
world
in
the
name
of
a
great
change.
The
reader
of
today
is
in
search
of
hope,
and
he
does
not
care
for
poetry
that
accepts
the
order
of
things
as
permanent.
Milosz
POLITICIANS:
I
judge
he
is
now
decidedly
on
the
right
tract
.
.
.
I
hope
the
Lord
will
make
him
a
blessing
both
as
a
Christian
and
a
statesman.
How
seldom
do
these
characters
coincide!!
But
they
are
not
incompatible.
John
Newton
writing
about
Wilberforce
POLITICIANS:
Sometimes
I
hear
our
countrymen
abroad
saying:
Oh
you
mustn’t
judge
us
by
our
politicians.
I
always
want
to
interrupt
and
answer,
You
must
judge
us
by
our
politicians.
Theodore
Roosevelt
POLITICS: Good politics tempers our excesses and bad politics excesses our tempers. Mardy Grothe
POLITICS: If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.
John Billings
POP
ART:
(Pop
art
is)
mass
produced,
low‐cost,
young,
sexy,
witty,
transient,
glamorous,
gimmicky,
expendable
and
popular.
Richard
Hamilton,
creator
of
the
first
piece
of
“pop
art”
POSITIONING:
Positioning
is
an
organized
system
for
finding
windows
in
the
mind.
It
is
based
on
the
concept
that
communication
can
only
take
place
at
the
right
time
and
under
the
right
circumstances.
Al
Ries,
Positioning
POSITIONING:
Positioning
is
the
process
by
which
you
get
your
product
into
the
minds
of
prospective
customers.
Al
Ries,
Positioning
POSITIVITY:
People
who
feel
goo
d
about
themselves
produce
good
results.
Ken
Blanchard,
The
One
Minute
Manager
POSSESSIONS:
All
the
goods
of
this
world
.
.
.
are
finite
and
limited
and
radically
incapable
of
satisfying
the
desire
that
perpetually
burns
with
us…
Simone
Weil
POSTMODERNISM:
Postmodernism
is
xenophobic
to
the
past.
Thomas
Oden
POSTMODERNITY:
Modernism
was
not
always
that
bad.
Postmodernism
isn’t
always
that
good.
And
the
line
between
the
two
is
sometimes
imaginary,
or
at
least
relatively
unimportant.
DeYoung,
Why
We’re
Not
Emergent
POTENTIAL: if I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power but for the
passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Soren
Kierkegaard
POTENTIAL: Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know
how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.
Anne Frank
POTENTIAL:
I
saw
the
angel
in
the
marble
and
carved
until
I
set
him
free.
Michelangelo
POTENTIAL: If an organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. Rollo May
POTENTIAL: Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they
come to see it in themselves. Stephen Covey
POTENTIAL: Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. Erich
Fromm
POTENTIAL: One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Maya Angelou
Potential:
Treat
a
man
as
he
appears
to
be
and
you
make
him
worse.
But
treat
a
man
as
if
he
already
were
what
he
potentially
could
be,
and
you
make
him
what
he
should
be.
Goethe
POVERTY:
Today
it
is
very
fashionable
to
talk
about
the
poor.
Unfortunately,
it
is
very
unfashionable
to
talk
with
them.
Mother
Teresa
POWER, ABUSE OF: I shall give a propangandist reason for starting the war, never mind whether it is
plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterward whether he told the truth or not. In starting
and waging a war it is not right that matters but victory. Close your hearts to pity. Act brutally. The
stronger man is right . . . Be harsh and remorseless! Be steeled against all signs of compassion!
Whoever has pondered over this world order knows that its meaning lies in the success of the best by
means of force. Hitler
POWER, ABUSE OF: Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they
could. Daniel Defoe
POWER:
Always
be
slightly
wary
of
people
in
positions
of
power,
but
be
especially
wary
when
that
person
in
power
is
yourself.
Mardy
Grothe
POWER:
Those
who
have
more
power
Are
liable
to
sin
more;
no
theorem
in
geometry
is
more
certain
than
this."
Gottfried
Wilhelm
von
Leibniz
POWER:
A
friend
in
power
is
a
friend
lost.
Henry
Brooks
Adams
POWER: I acquired and exercised power in ever-growing measure . . . I want them to feel my power.
Churchill
POWER: I love ruling. Margaret Thatcher
POWER:
It
is
easier
to
develop
great
power
than
it
is
to
know
how
to
use
it
wisely.
Walter
Lippman
POWER:
Material
power
that
is
not
counterbalanced
by
adequate
spiritual
power
that
is,
by
love
and
wisdom,
is
a
curse.
Arnold
J.
Toynbee
POWER:
Nearly
all
men
can
stand
adversity,
but
if
you
want
to
test
a
man's
character,
give
him
power.
Abraham
Lincoln,
widely
attributed,
but
apocryphal
POWER:
Power
does
not
corrupt
men;
fools,
however,
if
they
get
into
a
position
of
power,
corrupt
power.
George
Bernard
Shaw
POWER:
Power
intoxicates
men.
When
a
man
is
intoxicated
by
alcohol
he
can
recover,
but
when
intoxicated
by
power,
he
seldom
recovers.
James
F.
Byrnes
POWER:
The
effect
of
power
and
publicity
on
all
men
is
the
aggravation
of
self,
a
sort
of
humor
that
ends
by
killing
the
victim's
sympathies.
Henry
Brooks
Adams
POWER:
The
real
cause,
the
effective
one,
that
makes
men
lose
power
is
that
they
have
become
unworthy
to
exercise
it.
Alexis
de
Tocqueville
POWER:
To
be
big!
To
be
powerful!
This
is
and
has
always
been
the
longing
of
those
who
are
little
or
feel
they
are
little.
Alfred
Adler
POWER:
You
don't
lead
by
hitting
people
over
the
head‐‐
that's
assault,
not
leadership.
Dwight
D.
Eisenhower
POWER: He (Churchill) loved power, and sought it greedily always, most anxious to posses it in all its
plentitude and most reluctant to relinquish it. Paul Johnson, Heroes
PRACTI
CE:
You
must
walk
down
the
path
of
a
thousand
miles
step
by
step,
keeping
at
heart
the
spirit
which
one
gains
from
repeated
practice
with
whomever
one
can
get
to
practice
with,
and
knowledge
attained
from
whatever
experiences
you
can
come
by,
without
impatience.
Miyamoto
Musashi,
The
Book
of
Five
Rings
PRACTICE:
Practicing
a
thousand
days
is
said
to
be
discipline,
and
practicing
ten
thousand
days
is
said
to
be
refining.
Miyamoto
Musashi,
The
Book
of
Five
Rings
PRAYER:
(Prayer
is)
a
familiar
conversation
with
the
Divine
Majesty
in
one’s
soul.
St.
Jane
de
Chantal
PRAYER:
Act
as
if
everything
depended
on
you,
pray
as
if
everything
depended
on
God.
Ignatius
(And
its
opposite:
Pray
as
if
everything
depended
on
you.
Act
as
if
everything
depended
on
God.)
PRAYER:
If
I
should
neglect
prayer
but
a
single
day,
I
should
lose
a
great
deal
of
the
fire
of
faith.
Martin
Luther
PRAYER:
Prayer
is
better
than
sleep.
From
the
hazzan,
or
call
to
worship
PRAYER:
To
be
a
Christian
without
prayer
is
no
more
possible
than
to
be
alive
without
breathing.
Martin
Luther
PREACHING:
When
I
preach
I
regard
neither
doctors
nor
magistrates,
of
whom
I
have
above
forty
in
my
congregation;
I
have
all
my
eyes
on
the
servant
maids
and
on
the
children.
And
if
the
learned
men
are
not
well
pleased
with
what
they
hear,
well,
the
door
is
open.
Martin
Luther
PREDICTION: Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. Niels Bohr
PREGNANCY: If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. Nora Ephron
PREPARATION: In playing ball, or in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something
great. When that times comes, only two things matter: Being prepared to seize the moment and having
the courage to take your best swing. Hank Aaron
PRESENCE:
it
has
been
my
experience
that
presence
is
a
more
powerful
catalyst
for
change
than
analysis.
Rachel
Naomi
Remen,
My
Grandfather’s
Blessing
PRIDE:
As
long
as
you
are
proud,
you
cannot
know
God.
C.S.
Lewis
PRIDE:
But
the
idea
of
questioning
God’s
motives
will
always
be
a
fiercely
Americanthing
to
do;
it’s
almost
patriotic
to
get
in
God’s
face.
Chuck
Klosterman,
Sex,
Drugs
and
Cocoa
Puffs
PRIDE:
For
here
is
great
misery,
proud
man.
Augustine
PRIDE:
I
often
quote
myself.
It
adds
spice
to
my
conversation.
George
Bernard
Shaw
PRIDE:
If
I
had
one
sermon
to
preach,
it
would
be
a
sermon
against
pride.
The
more
I
see
of
existence
…
the
more
I
am
convinced
of
the
reality
of
the
old
religious
thesis,
that
all
evil
began
with
some
attempt
at
superiority
.
.
.
Chesterton,
The
Common
Man
PRIDE: Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts. F.A. Hayek
PRIDE: One of the problems with being too high is that there is a long way to fall. Josh Waitzkin
PRIDE:
The
lust
for
ridiculously
large
audiences,
high
ratings,
and
a
fast
track
to
immediate
celebrity
is
a
form
of
madness.
David
Dark,
Sacred
of
Questioning
Everything
PRIDE: The only good ideas are the ones I can take credit for. R. Stevens
PRIDE:
Whoever
thinks
that
he
alone
has
speech,
or
possesses
speech
or
mind
above
others,
when
unfolded
such
men
are
seen
to
be
empty.
Sophocles,
Antigone
PRIDE/WIT:
Wit
is
educated
insolence.
Aristotle,
Rhetoric
PRINCIPLE:
In
matters
of
principle,
stand
like
a
rock;
in
matters
of
taste,
swim
with
the
current.
Thomas
Jefferson
PRIORITIES: The difference between man and animal is tha man is capable of establishing priorities.
Mikhail Botvinnik
PRIORITIES:
Aim
at
heaven,
and
you
will
get
earth
thrown
in.
Aim
at
earth
and
you
will
get
neither.
C.S.
Lewis
PRIORITIES:
The
things
which
matter
most
must
never
be
at
the
mercy
of
things
which
matter
least.
Johann
Wolfgang
von
Goethe
PRISONS:
Prisons
are
to
crime
what
greenhouses
are
to
plants.
Harry
Whittington
PRIVACY: Privacy is dead. Get over it. Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems founder
PROBLEM SOLVING: Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other
problems. Rene Descartes
PROBLEM SOLVING: No problem was solved by the mind that created it. Einstein
PROGRESS:
it
is
not
strange
.
.
.
to
mistake
change
for
progress.
President
Fillmore
PROGRESS: Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. Ogden Nash
PROMOTION: Promotion decisions are what I call life and death decisions for managers. Peter Drucker
PROPHET:
The
prophet
lets
us
know
what
we
do
not
want
to
know;
he
troubles
and
solicits
us,
makes
us
tremble,
de‐centering
the
‘I,’
the
self
which
has
a
tendency
to
organize
everything
around
itself
and
to
ensure
that
everything
tht
it
gives
out
is
returned
with
interest.
John
Caputo
PROPHETS/RADICALS:
Christians
should
be
trouble
makers,
creators
of
uncertainty,
agents
of
a
dimension
incompatible
with
society.
Robert
Ellsberg
PROSPERITY: I am concerned about the cynical immorality of our nation. Strange crates we are; we
can stand all that God and nature send upon us save only plenty. If I wished to destroy a nation I would
make it rich and powerful and self-interested and it will destroy itself. John Steinbeck
PROSPERITY:
The
most
difficult
moment
for
the
church
will
come
when
everything
is
permitted
us.
Then
we
will
be
ashamed
because
we
are
not
ready
to
bear
witness.
Alexander
Men,
Russian
Orthodox
Priest
and
Martyr
PROVERBS:
Write
a
wise
saying
and
your
name
will
live
forever.
Anonymous
(Apparently
this
saying
wasn’t
wise
enough!)
PURPOSE AND PROVIDENCE: The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of
events issue from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings
and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would come his way. William Murray
PURPOSE,
BUSINESS:
There
is
only
one
valid
definition
of
business
purpose:
to
create
a
customer.
Peter
Drucker
PURPOSE, GOALS: If we could first know where we are going and whither we are tending, we could
better judge what to do and how to do it. Abraham Lincoln, “House Divided” speech
PURPOSE:
The
greatest
use
of
life
is
to
spend
it
for
something
that
will
outlast
it.
William
James
PURPOSE:
The
world
makes
way
for
the
man
(and
woman)
who
knows
where
he/she
is
going.
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson.
PURPOSE:
All
of
us
are
born
for
a
reason,
but
all
of
us
don’t
discover
why.
Success
in
life
has
nothing
to
do
with
what
you
gain
in
life
or
accomplish
for
yourself.
It’s
what
you
do
for
others.
Danny
Thomas
(entertainer)
PURPOSE:
Don’t
ask
what
the
world
needs.
Ask
what
makes
you
come
alive,
and
go
do
it
because
what
the
world
needs
is
people
who
have
come
alive.
Howard
Thurman,
theologian,
civil
rights
activist
PURPOSE:
I
am
appalled
at
the
aimlessness
of
most
people’s
lives.
Fifty
percent
don’t
pay
any
attention
to
where
they
are
going,
forty
percent
are
undecided
and
will
go
in
any
direction.
Only
ten
percent
know
what
they
want,
and
even
all
of
them
don’t
go
toward
it.
Katherine
Anne
Porter
(Pulitzer
winning
author)
PURPOSE:
I
want
to
be
thoroughly
used
up
when
I
die.
PURPOSE:
It
is
not
enough
to
be
busy.
The
question
is:
what
are
we
busy
about?
Henry
David
Thoreau
PURPOSE:
My
question
–
that
which
at
the
age
of
fifty
brought
me
to
the
verge
of
suicide
–
was
the
simplest
of
questions,
lying
in
the
soul
of
every
man
.
.
.
a
question
without
an
answer
to
which
one
cannot
live.
It
was:
“What
will
come
of
what
I
am
doing
today
or
tomorrow?
What
will
come
of
my
whole
life?
Why
should
I
live,
why
wish
for
anything,
or
do
anything?”
it
can
also
be
expressed
thus:
Is
there
any
meaning
in
my
life
that
the
inevitable
death
awaiting
me
does
not
destroy?
Leo
Tolstoy,
A
Confession
PURPOSE:
The
leader
for
the
time
being,
whoever
he
may
be,
is
but
an
instrument,
to
be
used
until
broken
and
then
to
be
cast
aside;
and
if
he
is
worth
his
salt
he
will
care
no
more
when
he
is
broken
than
a
soldier
cares
when
he
is
sent
where
his
life
is
forfeit
in
order
that
the
victory
may
be
won.
In
the
long
fight
for
righteousness
the
watchword
for
all
of
us
is
spend
and
be
spent.
It
is
of
little
matter
whether
any
one
man
fails
or
succeeds;
but
the
cause
shall
not
fail,
for
it
is
the
cause
of
mankind.
Theodore
Roosevelt
PURPOSE: We do not determine our purpose, we detect it. Viktor Frankl
PURPOSE:
What
we
are
trying
to
do
may
be
just
a
drop
in
the
ocean,
but
the
ocean
would
be
less
because
of
that
missing
drop.
Mother
Teresa
PURPOSE: The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who knows why will always be his
boss. Ralph Waldo Emerson
PURPOSE/JOY:
We
run,
not
because
we
think
it
is
doing
us
good,
but
because
we
enjoy
it
and
cannot
help
ourselves.
The
human
spirit
is
indomitable.
Roger
Bannister,
first
man
to
run
a
sub
four
minute
mile
on
May
6,
1954
PURPOSES OF GOD: Often God seems to work out his purposes for us slowly, indirectly, and despite
ourselves. David Lyle Jeffrey
PUZZLES:
There
are
only
three
great
puzzles
in
the
world.
The
puzzle
of
love,
the
puzzle
of
death,
and
between
each
of
these
and
part
of
both
of
them,
the
puzzle
of
God.
God
is
the
greatest
puzzle
of
all.
Niall
William,
As
It
Is
In
Heaven
QUESTIONS: Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso. Questions are
what matters. Questions and discovering the right ones, are the key to staying on course. Gary
Kasparov
QUESTIONS: Questioning yourself must become a habit, one strong enough to surmount the obstacles
of overconfidence and dejection. Gary Kasparov
QUESTIONS: There are few things as useless – if not as dangerous – as the right answer to the wrong
question. Peter Drucker
QUESTIONS: When you think you have all the answers, you don’t even ask the questions. Peter
Drucker
RATIONALISM:
We
are
a
puzzled
and
confused
generation,
embracing
any
and
every
kind
of
non‐
rationalism
that
may
offer
us
a
spiritual
shot
in
the
arm
while
lapsing
back
into
rationalism
(in
particular,
the
old
modernist
critiques)
whenever
we
want
to
keep
traditional
or
orthodox
Christianity
as
bay.
N.
T.
Wright
READING,
BOOKS:
The
man
who
does
not
read
books
has
no
advange
over
the
man
who
can’t
read
them.
Mark
Twain
READING;
Reading
is
to
the
mind
what
exercise
is
to
the
body.
Joseph
Addison
READING:
Study
has
been
my
sovereign
remedy
against
the
worries
of
life.
I
have
never
had
a
care
that
an
hour’s
reading
could
not
dispel.
Charles
de
Montesquieu
READING: (T)he act of reading, which, at its best, is spacious, full-bodied, wholehearted, and infused
with the breath of life. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words
READING: A good book contains more wealth than a good bank.
READING: Books represent the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of the ages, available for pennies
on the dollar. Books preserve the greatest thoughts, the greatest ideas, and the greatest insights of
human experience. Chris Brady
READING: If you read a book a week, in a year you’ll have read 52 books. In ten years 520 books.
You’ll be in the top 1% of your field. You’ll be more motivated, better educated; you’ll become the
leader in your field. Jim Rohm
READING: Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
READING: Not all readers are leaders but all leaders must be readers. Harry Truman
READING: Noted 18th century scholar Dr. Samuel Johnson once sat in discussion with the King of
England. “I suppose, Dr. Johnson, that you read a great deal” said the King. “Yes Sire” replied Johnson,
“but I think a great deal more.” Our reading should not just be for enjoyment, but should foster
growth in our minds and persons. Reading should lead to better thoughts, which in turn lead to better
actions, which then lead to better habits, which then produce better results, which then produce a
better future. Chris Brady
READING: People who hope to successfully influence what goes on around them will develop the habit
of reading great books. William J. O’Neil (founder of Investor’s Business Daily)
READING:
Reading
is
a
means
of
thinking
with
another
person’s
mind;
it
forces
you
to
stretch
your
own.
Charles
Scribner,
Jr.
READING:
Reading
is
the
mind
what
exercise
is
to
the
body.
Sir
Richard
Steele
READING: Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Francis
Bacon, Of Studies
READING:
Reading
with
prayer
and
laughter
and
self‐examination
is
often
like
fighting
off
demon‐
possession.
David
Dark,
Sacred
of
Questioning
Everything
READING: The best book is the one that sets us off on a train of thought that carries us far away from
and far beyond the book itself.
READING: There are more secrets in my trade than in any other. Thoreau
READING: We need story, poetry, play and song to replenish the wellsprings of imagination, to feed
the spirit, to foster compassion. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words
READING: We will be addressed and changed if we read well. We will be challenged and confronted
and convicted and offended, bothered, unsettled, and sometimes bored. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre,
Caring for Words
READING:
What
we
become
depends
on
what
we
read
after
all
of
the
professors
have
finished
withus.
The
greatest
university
of
all
is
a
collection
of
books.
Thomas
Carlyle
READING:
it’s
a
good
plan
to
have
a
book
with
you
in
all
places
and
at
all
times.
If
you
are
presently
without,
hurry
without
delay
to
the
nearest
shop
and
buy
one
of
mine.
Oliver
Wendell
Holmes
REALISM:
In
all
matters
we
should
hope
and
pray
for
the
best,
nevertheless,
we
should
be
prepared
for
the
worst.
Martin
Luther
REALISM: The professional pessimist sees one half of the picture, the professional optimist the other.
The former calls the latter superficial and is in turn pronounced defeatist. Each possesses a distorted
fragment of the Christian faith. The bible’s realism exceeds that of the worst cynic, for it knows what
man has done to God. At the same time its hope surpasses the wildest utopian fantasy, for it has
concrete experience of what this same god will do for man. Edmond La B. Cherbonnier
REALITY:
(Reality)
is
that
which,
when
you
stop
believing
in
it,
doesn’t
go
away.
Philip
K.
Dick
REALITY: Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not
obvious and not what you expect… Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed.
C.S. Lewis
REALITY:
it
is
the
work
of
the
prophet
‐
the
poet,
the
songwriter,
the
teacher,
the
preacher
–
to
seek
out
reality
and
to
never
stop
questioning
it.
David
Dark,
Sacred
of
Questioning
Everything
REALITY:
Our
world
of
great
bargins,
low
prices,
satisfaction
guaranteed
was
always
a
false
world.
David
Dark,
Sacred
of
Questioning
Everything
RECESSION: A recession is when the nest guy loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.
Recover is when Jimmy Carter loses his. Ronald Reagan campaigning against Carter
RECONCILIATION:
You
and
I
ought
not
to
die
before
we
have
explained
ourselves
to
each
other.
John
Adams
in
a
letter
to
Thomas
Jefferson
REFORM:
It
is
essential
to
the
triumph
of
reform
that
it
shall
never
succeed.
William
Hazlitt
REGRET:
Never
indulge
yourself
on
the
sinner’s
stool.
If
you
did
any
harm,
that
won’t
undo
it,
you’ll
merely
rake
it
up.
The
sinner’s
stool
is
often
the
only
available
publicity
spot
for
the
otherwise
wholly
obscure
egotist.
Theodore
Roosevelt
RELATIONSHIP:
Anyone
who
doesn’t
need
company
is
either
greater
than
a
man,
and
is
a
God,
or
lesser
than
a
man,
and
is
a
beast.
Aristotle
RELATIONSHIP:
In
the
beginning
is
relationship.
Martin
Buber
RELATIONSHIP:
The
more
I’m
around
people,
the
more
I
love
my
dog.
T‐shirt
RELATIONSHIPS:
Every
relationship
worth
keeping
sustains,
at
the
very
least,
splintered
glazes,
hairline
fractures,
cracks.
And
aren’t
these
flaws
the
prerequisites
of
intimacy.
Stephanie
Kallos,
Broken
For
You
RELEVANT:
Whoever
marries
the
spirit
of
this
age
will
find
himself
a
widower
in
the
next.
William
Inge
RELIGION:
Religion
is
responsibility
or
it
is
nothing
at
all.
Jacques
Derrida
RELIGION:
Religion
is
the
temple
after
God
has
left
it.
Bono,
U2
RELIGION:
Religion
makes
the
“strange”
familiar
and
the
familiar
strange.
RELIGIONLESS:
You
leave
religion
with
a
tremendous
sense
of
liberation,
and
the,
years
later,
you
discover
that
something
really
important
is
missing
.
.
.
and
you
either
start
all
over
again
and
go
back
and
try
to
reclaim
it
or
else
you
substitute
something
else
for
it.
Robert
Stone,
National
Book
Award
winner
for
Damascus
Gate
Repentance:
Most
of
us
prefer
remorse
to
repentance.
We
would
rather
feel
badly
about
the
damage
we
have
done
than
get
estimates
on
the
costs
of
repair.
Barbara
Brown
Taylor
REPUTATION:
You
can’t
build
a
reputation
on
what
you
are
going
to
do.
Henry
Ford
RESILENCY: The signature of the truly great versus the merely successful is not the absence of
difficulty, but the ability to come back from setbacks, even cataclysmic catastrophes, stronger than
beore. . Jim Collins, How the Mighty Fall
RESILIENCE: Mental resilience is arguably the most critical trait of a world-class performer, and it
should be nurtured continuously. Josh Waitzkin
RESOLVE: We’re here to do whatever it takes. Ronald Reagan
RESONANCE,
POSITIVITY:
A
man
should
never
be
appointed
to
a
managerial
position
if
his
vision
focuses
on
people’s
weaknesses
rather
than
on
their
strengths.
Peter
Drucker,
The
Practice
of
Management
RESOURCES,
PEOPLE:
When
we
get
down
to
the
actual
work‐a‐day
world,
the
man
wo
in
the
long
run
succeeds
is
the
man
who
understands
from
the
beginning
that
his
tools
will
ofte
be
imperfect
.
.
.
and
who
goes
on
and
does
the
best
he
can
in
spite
of
the
mistakes
and
shortcomings
of
his
associates,
and
in
spite
of
the
imperfections
of
what
he
has
to
work
with.
Theodore
Roosevelt
RESOURCES:
We
must
use
the
tools
we
have.
Abraham
Lincoln
RESPONSIBILITY,
DEMOCRACY:
The
best,
most
efficient,
most
profitable
way
to
operate
a
business
is
to
give
everybody
in
the
company
a
voice
in
saying
how
the
company
is
run
and
a
stake
in
the
financial
outcome,
good
or
bad.
Jack
Stack,
The
Great
Game
of
Business
RESPONSIBILITY:
I
am
your
servant.
You
have
the
right
to
dismiss
me
when
you
please.
What
you
have
no
right
to
do
is
ask
me
to
bear
responsibility
without
the
power
of
action.
Winston
Churchill
Responsibility:
I
believe
that
every
right
implies
a
responsibility;
every
opportunity,
an
obligation;
every
possession,
a
duty.
John
d.
Rockefeller,
Jr.
RESPONSIBILITY:
If
not
me,
who?
If
not
now,
when?
Rabbi
Hillel
RESPONSIBILITY: If not you, then who?
RESPONSIBILITY:
If
we
are
not
our
brother's
keeper,
at
least
let
us
not
be
his
executioner.
Marlon
Brando
RESPONSIBILITY:
If
you
cannot
feed
a
hundred
children,
well
then,
feed
one.
Mother
Teresa
RESPONSIBILITY:
Personal
leadership
means
dealing
with
the
truth,
owning
it,
and
being
responsible
for
what
you
know
and
what
you
don’t
know.
Howard
Behar,
It’s
Not
About
the
Coffee
RESPONSIBILITY:
The
worker
is
not
the
problem.
W.
Edwards
Demming
RESPONSIBILITY: Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my
apple tree. Martin Luther
RESPONSIBILITY: My rule always was, to do the business of the day in the day. Duke of Wellington
RESURRECTION:
it
is
love
that
believes
the
resurrection.
Wittgenstein
RESURRECTION:
Resurrection
was
always
bound
to
get
you
in
trouble,
and
it
regularly
did.
N.t.
Wright
RESURRECTION:
resurrection
was
never
a
way
of
setline
down
and
becoming
respectable.
N.T.
Wright
RESURRECTION:
The
world
cannot
cope
with
a
Jesus
who
comes
out
of
the
tomb,
who
inaugurates
God’s
new
creation
right
in
the
middle
of
the
old
one.
N.T.
Wright
REVOLUTION: In a broad sense, what leaders do is stage revolutions. Noel Tichy
REWARD:
The
king
of
glory
does
not
reward
his
servants
according
to
the
dignity
of
the
offices
they
hold,
but
according
to
the
love
and
humility
with
which
they
fulfill
their
offices.
St.
Francis
de
Sales
RISK: One does not discover new continents without a willingness to lose sight of the shore for a very
long time. Andre Gide, Nobel Prize Winner
RISK:
One
does
not
discover
new
lands
without
consenting
to
lose
sight
of
the
shore.
Andre
Gide
RISK: Take into account that great love and great achievement involve great risk. 14th Dalai Lama
ROOTS:
A
man’s
rootage
is
more
important
than
his
leafage.
Woodrow
Wilson
SACRIFICE:
There
are
no
victories
at
bargain
prices.
Dwight
D.
Eisenhower
SACRIFICE: the important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we
can become. Charles Dubois
SAINT:
Living
with
a
saint
is
more
grueling
than
being
one.
Robert
Neville
SAINTS:
Be
a
crazy
dumb
saint
of
your
own
mind...
Have
no
fear
or
shame
in
the
dignity
of
your
experience,
language
and
knowledge.
Jack
Kerouac
SAINTS:
Born
a
saint,
die
a
sinner
born
a
sinner,
die
a
saint.
Doug
Horton
SAINTS:
Sainthood
emerges
when
you
can
listen
to
someone's
tale
of
woe
and
not
respond
with
a
description
of
your
own.
Andrew
V.
Mason
SAINTS:
Sainthood
is
acceptable
only
in
saints.
~
Pamela
Hansford
Johnson
SAINTS:
"To
err
is
human.
To
forgive
takes
restraint;
To
forget
you
forgave
Is
the
mark
of
a
saint."
~
Suzanne
Douglass
SAINTS:
(To
be
a
saint)
means
to
live
in
such
a
way
that
one’s
life
would
not
make
sense
if
God
did
not
exist.
Cardinal
Suhard
SAINTS:
A
man
does
not
have
to
be
an
angel
in
order
to
be
a
saint.
Albert
Schweitzer
SAINTS:
A
saint
has
to
be
a
misfit.
A
person
who
embodies
what
his
culture
considers
typical
or
normal
cannot
be
exemplary.
Martin
E.
Marty
SAINTS:
Don’t
call
me
a
saint.
I
don’t
want
to
be
dismissed
that
easily.
Dorothy
Day
SAINTS:
I've
gone
from
saint
to
whore
and
back
to
saint
again,
all
in
one
lifetime.
Ingrid
Bergman
SAINTS:
In
order
to
be
a
saint,
you
have
to
seriously
want
to
be
one.
Mother
Teresa
SAINTS:
The
saints
differ
from
us
in
their
exuberance,
the
excess
of
our
human
talents.
Moderation
is
not
their
secret.
It
is
in
the
wildness
of
their
dreams,
the
desperate
vitality
of
their
ambitions,
that
they
stand
apart
from
ordinary
people
of
good
will.
Phyllis
McGinley
SAINTS:
We
are
not
saints.
We
know
we
make
mistakes,
but
at
least
our
heart
is
with
the
right
cause.
~
Dwight
Eisenhower
SAINTS:
The
saints
have
never
attached
importance
to
what
their
hands
do;
they
did
what
they
had
to
do
but
they
did
it
for
love.
~
Pere
Jacques
Bunol
SALES:
While
more
sales
may
ease
the
symptoms
of
a
current
situation
or
keep
it
onlife
support,
more
sales
definitely
do
not
cure
anything.
Scott
McKain
SALES:
While
more
sales
may
ease
the
symptoms
of
a
current
situation
or
keep
it
on
life
support,
more
sales
definitely
do
not
cure
anything.
Scott
McKain,
The
Collapse
of
Distinction
SAMENESS:
That
sea
of
similarity.
Scott
McKain,
The
Collapse
of
Distinction
SANCTIFICATION:
Our
sanctification
did
not
depend
upon
changing
our
works,
but
in
doing
for
God’s
sake
that
which
we
commonly
did
for
our
own.
Brother
Lawrence
SEARCHING:
The
young
man
who
rings
the
bell
at
the
brothel
is
unconsciously
looking
for
God.
SECOND HALF: The one prerequisite for managing the second half of your life: You must begin long
before you enter it. Peter Drucker, “Managing Oneself”
SECRETS,
LONLINESS:
Nothing
makes
us
so
lonely
as
our
secrets.
Paul
Tournier
SECURITY:
In
his
will
is
our
peace.
Dante
SEDUCTION:
It’s
the
beautiful
things
that
get
us.
Perhaps
the
greatest
seduction
is
not
the
ANTI‐GOD
but
the
ALMOST
GOD.
Shane
Claiborne
SELF‐AWARENESS:
Sometimes
I
lie
awake
at
night,
and
I
ask,
“Where
have
I
gone
wrong?
Then
a
voice
says
to
me,
“This
is
going
to
take
more
than
one
night.”
Charles
M
Schulz
SELF‐AWARENESS:
Getting
to
know
yourself
is
extremely
difficult.
Thales
SELF‐AWARENESS:
I
believe
the
real
difference
in
America
is
not
between
conservatives
and
liberals,
fundamentalists,
charismatics,
republicans
and
democrats;
the
real
difference
is
between
the
aware
and
the
unaware.
Brennan
Manning
SELF‐AWARENESS:
If
you
do
not
tell
the
truth
about
yourself
,
you
cannot
tell
it
about
other
people.
Virginia
Woolf
SELF‐AWARENESS:
If
you
would
be
a
real
seeker
after
truth,
it
is
necessary
that
at
least
once
in
your
life
you
doubt,
as
far
as
possible,
all
things.
Rene
Descartes
SELF‐AWARENESS:
Know
thyself.
Oracle
of
Apollo
at
Delphi
SELF‐AWARENESS:
Knowing
yourself
is
the
beginning
of
all
wisdom.
Aristotle
SELF-AWARENESS: Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
SELF-AWARENESS: The life of every man is a diary in wich he means to write one story, but writes
another. And his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make
it. James Barrie
SELF‐AWARENESS:
the
unexamined
life
is
not
worth
living.
Socrates
SELF‐AWARENESS:
To
know
oneself,
is
above
all,
to
know
what
one
lacks.
It
is
to
measure
oneself
against
the
Truth,
and
not
the
other
way
around.
Flannery
O’Connor
SELF‐AWARENESS:
Whenever
you
find
yourself
in
the
majority,
it’s
time
to
pause
and
reflect.
Mark
Twain
SELF-AWARENESS: to known oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself
against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility, and this
is not a virtue conspicuous in any national character. Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners
SELF‐AWARNESS:
For
this
is
the
journey
that
men
make;
to
find
themselves.
If
they
fail
in
this,
it
doesn’t
much
matter
what
else
they
find
.
.
.
James
Michener
SELF-DECEPTION: it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost. Black Elk
SELF-DECEPTION: Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. Wittgenstein
Self‐Discipline:
The
first
and
best
victory
is
to
conquer
self.
Plato
SELF‐DISCIPLINE:
When
it
comes
to
self‐discipline,
people
choose
one
of
two
things.
Either
they
choose
the
pain
of
discipline
which
comes
from
sacrifice
and
growth,
or
they
choose
the
pain
of
regret
which
comes
from
taking
the
easy
road
and
missing
opportunities.
John
Maxwell.
SELF‐IMPORTANCE:
Self‐importance
is
man’s
gretest
enemy.
What
weakens
him
is
feeling
offended
by
the
deeds
and
misdeeds
of
his
fellow
man.
Self‐importance
requires
that
one
spend
most
of
one’s
life
feeling
offended
by
something
or
someone.
Carlos
Castaneda
SELF-LEADERSHIP: He knows not how to rule a Kingdom what cannot manage a Province. Nor can he
wield a Province that cannot order a City. Nor can he order a City that knows not how to regulate a
Village. Nor he a Village that cannot guide a Famiy. Nor can that man govern well a Family that knows
not how to govern Himself. Hugo Grotius
SELF-LEADERSHIP: You must rule yourself before you rule others. Mark Beliles
SELF‐PREOCCUPATION:
My
generation
is
introspective
at
a
level
somewhere
between
self‐absorption
and
narcissism.
DeYoung,
Why
We’re
Not
Emergent
SELF: Dare to be yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
SELF:
How
much
larger
your
life
would
be
if
your
self
could
become
smaller
in
it
.
.
.
You
would
break
out
of
this
tiny
and
tawdry
theatre
in
which
your
own
little
plot
is
always
played,
and
you
would
find
yourself
under
a
freer
sky,
in
a
street
full
of
splendid
strangers.
Chesterton,
Orthodoxy
SELF: Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson
SELF:
The
self
is
not
something
ready‐made,
but
something
in
continuous
formation
through
choice…
John
Dewey
SELFISHNESS:
The
cause
of
all
sins
in
every
case
lies
in
the
person’a
excessive
love
of
self.
Plato,
Laws
SENSE OF HUMOR: There is only one line to be adopted in opposition to all tricks; that is the steady,
straight line of duty, tempered by forbearance, levity and good nature. Always try to keep in good
humor with the world. Duke of Wellington
SERIOUSNESS:
Seriousness
is
not
a
virtue.
Chesterton,
Orthodoxy
SERVANT LEADER: The leader is the servant of his followers in that he removes the obstacles that
prevent them from doing their jobs. In short, the true leader enables his or her followers to realize their full
potential. Max DePree, Leadership is an Art
SERVANT:
If
you
want
to
lift
yourself
up,
lift
up
someone
else.
Booker
T.
Washington
SERVANT:
One
of
the
indisputable
lessons
of
life
is
that
we
cannot
get
or
keep
anything
for
ourselves
alone
unless
we
get
it
for
others.
Richard
Sneed
SERVICE:
In
the
long
run
no
man
or
women
can
really
be
happy
unless
he
or
she
is
doing
service.
Happiness
springing
exclusively
from
some
other
cause
crumbles
in
your
hands,
amounts
to
nothing.
Theodore
Roosevelt
SEXUAL
SIN:
If
you
think
you
can’t
fall
into
sexual
sin,
then
you’re
godlier
than
David,
stronger
than
Samson,
and
wiser
than
Solomon.
Bill
Perkins
SHOPPING: Men buy; women shop and then purchase 80% of everything. Elizabeth Pace
SILENCE: My dear, you’ve missed so many opportunities to say nothing.
SILENCE:
Silence
is
golden
when
you
can’t
think
of
a
good
answer.
Muhammad
Ali,
More
Than
a
Hero
SILENCE:
Silence
is
one
great
art
of
conversation.
William
Hazlitt
SIMILARITY:
Whatever
you
may
be
sure
of,
be
sure
of
this,
that
you
are
dreadfully
like
other
people.
James
Russell
Lowell
SIMPLE:
I
have
always
studied
to
be
simple.
John
Calvin
SIMPLICITY: After nearly sixty years of writing history, and also of observing contemporary history
makes in action, I am convinced that successful government depends less on intelligence and
knowledge than on simplicity – that is the ability to narrow aims to three or four important tasks which
are possible, reasonable and communicable. Paul Johnson, Heroes
SIMPLICITY:
It
is
simplicity
that
makes
the
uneducated
more
effective
than
the
educated
when
addressing
popular
audiences.
Aristotle
SIMPLICITY:
simplicity
is
complexity
resolved.
Constantin
Brancusi,
Romanian
sculptor
Sin,
Roman
Empire:
Wealth
has
made
us
greedy,
and
self‐indulgence
has
brought
us,
through
every
form
of
sensual
excess,
to
be,
if
I
may
so
put
it,
in
love
with
death.
Livy,
History
of
Rome
SIN:
What
happened
in
Eden
may
be
hard
to
understand,
but
it
makes
everything
else
understandable.
Peter
Kreeft
Sin:
Devotion
to
what
is
wrong
is
complex
and
admits
of
infinite
variations.
Seneca
SIN:
Neither
the
language
of
medicine
nor
of
law
is
adequate
substitute
for
the
language
of
sin.
Contrary
to
the
medical
model,
we
are
not
entirely
at
the
mercy
of
our
maladies.
The
choice
is
to
enter
into
the
process
of
repentance.
Contrary
to
the
legal
model,
the
essence
of
sin
is
not
(primarily)
the
violation
of
laws
but
a
wrecked
relationship
with
God,
one
another,
and
the
whole
created
order.
‘All
sins
are
attempts
to
fill
voids,’
wrote
Simone
Weil.
Because
we
cannot
stand
the
God‐shaped
hole
inside
of
us,
we
try
stuffing
it
full
of
all
sorts
of
things,
but
only
God
may
fill
it.
Barbara
Brown
Taylor,
Speaking
of
Sin
SIN:
Nothing
is
easier
than
sinning.
Martin
Luther
SIN:
Our
lives
are
not
rightly
ordered.
St.
Augustine
SIN:
Sin
is
not
simply
doing
bad
things,
it
is
putting
good
things
in
the
place
of
God.
Tim
Keller,
The
Reason
for
God
SIN:
Sin
is
the
steadfast
refusal
to
be
your
one
true
self.
Kierkegaard
(paraphrase)
SIN:
The
deep
truth
about
us
is
that
we
are
all
morally
flimsy,
covertly
willing
to
sell
out
at
some
terrible
price.
Marilyn
McCord
Adams
SIN:
The
primary
way
to
define
sin
is
not
just
the
doing
of
bad
things,
but
the
making
of
good
things
into
ultimate
things.
It
is
seeking
to
establish
a
sense
of
self
by
making
something
else
more
central
toyour
significance,
purpose
and
happiness
than
your
relationship
to
God.
Tim
Keller,
The
Reason
for
God
SIN:
The
world
is
now
flooded
with
abnormalities
so
prevalent
that
they
seem
all
too
normal.
David
Naugel,
Reordered
Love,
Reordered
Lives
SIN:
What
am
I
to
myself
but
a
guide
to
my
own
self‐destruction.
Augustine
SIN:
You
are
depraved
by
prosperity
and
you
cannot
be
reformed
by
adversity.
St.
Augustine
SIN:
Sin
is
the
despairing
refusal
to
find
your
deepest
identity
in
your
relationship
and
service
to
God.
Sin
is
seeking
to
become
oneself,
to
get
an
identity
apart
from
him.
Tim
Keller,
The
Reason
for
God
SIN:
Sin
is
the
forgetfulness
of
God’s
goodness.
Evagrius
of
Pontus
(paraphrase)
SIN:
Sin
is:
in
despair
not
wanting
to
be
oneself
before
God
.
..
Faith
is:
that
the
self
in
being
itself
and
wanting
to
be
itself
is
grounded
transparently
in
God.
Kierkegaard
SIN:
We
are
our
own
devils;
we
drive
ourselves
out
of
our
Edens.
Johann
Wolfgang
Von
Goethe
SINCERITY: Always be sincere whether you mean it or not.
SKEPTICISM: The freedom of our day is the freedom to devote ourselves to any values we please, on
the mere condition that we do not believe them to be true. Robert Bellah
SKEPTICISM: Something in the human mind says it’s hopeless: The existence of God is something that
human beings can never entirely discount, or entirely prove. Why torture yourself trying to answer a
question like that? Get a hobby. Work out regularly. Eat low fat. Forget about what Yeats called “vague
immensities . . .” Yet something deep in your soul says, go ahead. Seek the ultimate answers. Maybe
the human brain can actually know some transcendent divinity. Yeah. Good one. Don’t hurt yourself,
OK? Frank Gannon
SLAVERY: When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him
personally. Abraham Lincoln
SLOTH:
it
believes
in
nothing,
cares
for
nothing,
seeks
to
know
nothing,
interferes
with
nothing,
enjoys
nothing,
loves
nothing,
hates
nothing,
finds
purpose
in
nothing,
lives
for
nothing,
and
remains
alive
for
there
is
nothing
it
would
die
for.
Dorothy
Sayers
SLOTH:
Our
lack
of
love
for
God
can
make
us
spiritually
lazy,
morally
negligent,
and
intellectually
idle.
David
Naugel,
Reordered
Love,
Reordered
Lives
SLOTH:
Sloth
fails
to
find
God
supremely
significant
and
attractive
so
as
to
pursue
him
enthusiastically.
Peter
Kreeft
SOLITUDE:
In
secret,
a
brother
went
to
see
Abba
Moses
and
begged
him
for
a
word.
And
the
old
man
said:
go
sit
in
your
cell,
and
your
cell
will
teach
you
everything.
SOLITUDE:
In
solitude
I
get
rid
of
my
scaffolding:
no
friends
to
talk
with,
no
telephone
calls
to
make,
no
meetings
to
attend,
no
music
to
entertain,
no
books
to
distract,
just
me
–
naked,
vulnerable,
weak,
sinful,
deprived,
broken
–
nothing.
Henri
Nouwen
Solutions:
There
is
always
an
easy
solution
to
every
human
problem
–
neat,
plausible,
and
wrong.
H.
L.
Mencken
SORROW:
All
sorrows
can
be
born
if
you
put
them
into
a
story
or
tell
a
story
about
them.
Isak
Dinesen
SOVEREIGNTY
OF
GOD:
I
am
only
an
instrument
that
God
is
using
for
the
moment.
Afterwards,
things
will
be
as
God
wants
them.
Alexander
Men,
Russian
Orthodox
Priest
and
Martyr
SPEECH:
Always
when
you
are
about
to
say
anything,
first
weigh
it
in
your
mind;
for
with
many
the
tongue
outruns
the
thought.
Let
there
be
but
two
occasions
for
speech
–
when
the
subject
is
one
which
you
know
thoroughly
and
when
it
is
one
on
which
you
are
compelled
to
speak.
On
these
occasions
alone
is
speech
better
then
silence;
on
all
others,
it
is
better
to
be
silent
than
to
speak.
Isocrates
SPEECH:
Nature
has
given
us
one
tongue
and
two
ears
so
that
we
would
listen
twice
as
much
as
we
speak.
Neno
of
Elea
SPEECH:
Wise
is
he
who
can
compress
many
thoughts
into
few
words.
Aristophanes
SPEECH/TALKATIVE:
A
man
who
takes
pleasure
in
speaking
continuously
fools
himself
in
thinking
he
is
not
unpleasant
to
those
around
him.
Sophocles
SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP: Christian leadership rises from bended knees, tearful eyes, and broken
hearts. Joshua Choonmin Kang, Deep-Rooted in Christ
SPIRITUAL
LEADERSHIP:
The
central
question
is,
are
the
leaders
of
the
future
truly
men
and
women
of
God,
people
with
an
ardent
desire
to
dwell
in
God’s
presence,
to
listen
to
God’s
voice,
to
look
at
God’s
beauty,
to
touch
God’s
incarnate
Word
and
to
taste
fully
God’s
infinite
goodness?
Henri
Nouwen,
In
the
Name
of
Jesus
SPIRITUALITY:
I
firmly
believe
that
mankind
was
once
wiser
about
spiritual
things
than
we
are
today.
Henry
Ford
SPIRITUALITY: it is easier to spend your life manipulating an institution then it is to deal with your
own soul. Parker Palmer
SPIRITUALITY:
We
aren’t
as
deeply
acquainted
with
our
religion
as
we
might
thing.
David
Dark,
Sacred
of
Questioning
Everything
STATUS QUO, CHANGE: Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.
When something goes wrong, you naturally want to do it better the next time, but you must train
yourself to want to do it better even when things go right. Failing to do this leads to stagnation and
eventual breakdown. Gary Kasparov
STATUS QUO: Leaders conduct planned conflict against the status quo. Hyrun Smith
STATUS QUO: Warren Bennis says he wants to publish books “that disturb the present in the service of
a better future.
STEWARDSHIP:
Anyone
can
make
a
world
suffer
and
cry.
It
requires
no
imagination.
Child’s
play,
and
no
challenge
at
all.
But
to
fix
the
broken
jugs
of
despair,
unkindness,
illness
and
ill
fortune
–
this
takes
a
creative
mind.
Tanith
Lee
STEWARDSHIP:
Polishing
up
the
world,
making
it,
where
(we)
can
better.
And
where
we
can’t,
comforting
it.
Tanith
Lee
STILLNESS:
To
the
mind
that
is
still,
the
world
surrenders.
Taoist
saying
STORIES:
Why
was
Solomon
recognized
as
the
wisest
man
in
the
world?
Because
he
knew
more
stories,
proverbs,
than
anyone
else.
Scratch
the
surface
in
a
typical
boardroom
and
we’re
all
just
cavemen
with
briefcases,
hungry
for
a
wise
person
to
tell
us
a
story.
Scott
McKain,
The
Collapse
of
Distinction
STORIES:
marketing
is
the
act
of
telling
stories
about
the
things
we
make
–
stories
that
sell
and
stories
that
spread.
Seth
Godin,
Tribes
STORIES:
Scratch
the
surface
in
a
typical
boardroom
and
we’re
all
just
cavemen
with
briefcases,
hungry
for
a
wise
person
to
tell
us
stories.
Scott
Mckain
STORY:
A
man
is
always
a
teller
of
tales,
he
lives
surrounded
by
his
stories
and
the
stories
of
others,
he
sees
everything
that
happens
to
him
through
them;
and
he
tries
to
live
his
own
life
as
if
were
telling
a
story.
Jean‐Paul
Sartre,
Nausea
STORY:
We
don’t
need
list
of
rights
and
wrongs,
tables
of
do’s
and
don’ts.
We
need
books,
time,
silence.
“Thou
shalt
not”
is
soon
forgotten,
but
‘Once
upon
a
time
lasts
forever.’
STORY:
God
writes
straight
with
crooked
lines.
STORY: The only safe place is inside a story. Athol Fugard
STORY:
Those
who
control
the
stories
rule
the
world.
Dick
Staub,
The
Culturally
Savvy
Christian
STORY:
To
be
a
person
is
to
have
a
story
to
tell.
Isak
Dinesen
STORY:
We
tell
ourselves
stories
in
order
to
live.
Joan
Didion
STORY: The stories that mater also complicate our lives. Good stories are always slightly precarious
places to go. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words
STRANGE:
If
you
haven’t
found
something
strange
during
the
day,
it
hasn’t
been
much
of
a
day.
John
Wheeler
STRATEGIC PLANNING: it is rarely possible – or even particularly fruitful – to look to far ahead. A plan
can usually cover no more than 18 months and still be reasonably clear and specific. So the question in
most cases should be – “where and how can I achieve results that will make a difference within the
next year and a half?” Peter Drucker, “Managing Oneself”
STRATEGY: Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the
noise before defeat. Sun Tzu
STRATEGY: Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to
do when there is nothing to do. Savielly Tartakower
STRATEGY: The strategist’s method is to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single questin:
Why? Kenichi Ohmae, Japanese author
STRATEGY: Why is the question that separates visionaries from functionaries, great strategists from
mere tacticians. Gary Kasparov
STRENGTH:
Weak
is
the
new
strong.
STRENGTHS:
In
my
regiment
nine‐tenths
of
the
men
were
better
horsemen
that
I
was,
and
probably
two‐thirds
of
them
better
shots
than
I
was,
while
on
the
average
they
were
certainly
hardier
and
more
enduring.
Yet
after
I
had
had
them
a
very
short
while
they
all
knew,
and
I
knew
too,
that
nobody
else
could
command
them
as
well
as
I
could.
Theodore
Roosevelt
STRENGTHS: It takes far more energy and far more work to improve from incompetence to low
mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence. Peter Drucker
STRENGTHS: Nothing destroyes the spirit of an organization faster than focusing on people’s
weaknesses rather than on their strengths, building on disabilities rather than on abilities. Peter
Drucker
STRENGTHS: The focus must be on strength . . . the greatest mistake is to try to build on weakness.
Peter Drucker
STRESS:
Reality
is
the
leading
cause
of
stress
amongst
those
in
touch
with
it.
Jane
Wagner
STRESS: Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Natalie Goldberg
STRESS:
Stress
is
the
non‐specific
response
of
the
body
too
any
demand
for
change.
Hans
Seyle,
Stress
Without
Distress
STRESS:
Stress
tolerance
is
the
skill
of
holding
the
world’s
parade
of
unpleasant
surprises
at
bay.
Marcia
Hughes,
Emotionally
Intelligent
Teams
STRIVING: Men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal, but by the grandness of effort
involved in getting there or failing to get there. Max Lerner
STUMBLE: A stumble may prevent a fall. Thomas Fuller
STUMBLE: Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you
are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. Charles F.
Kettering
STUMBLE: We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in
true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. Thomas Merton
SUCCESS:
Here
is
the
task
and
I
have
got
to
do
it
to
the
best
of
my
ability;
and
that
is
all
there
is
about
it.
The
Theodore
Roosevelt
odore
Roosevelt
SUCCESS:
I
have
learned
that
success
is
to
be
measured
not
so
much
by
the
position
that
one
has
reached
in
life
as
by
the
obstacles
which
he
has
had
to
overcome
while
trying
to
succeed.
Booker
T.
Washington
SUCCESS:
If
you
have
accomplished
all
that
you
have
planned
for
yourself,
you
have
not
planned
enough.
Edward
Everett
Hale
SUCCESS: Some peter out and some pan out. James Barrie
SUCCESS: Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. Arnold
H. Glasgow
SUCCESS: The much commoner type of success in every walk of life and in every species of efforts is
that which comes to the man who differs from his fellows not by the kind of quality which he possesses
but by the degree of development which he has given that quality. This kind of success is open to a
large number of persons, if only they seriously determine to achieve it. It is the kind of success which is
open to the average man . . . who has no remarkable mental or physical attributes, but who gets just
as much as possible in the way of work out of the aptitudes that he does possess. It is this kind of
success that is open to most of us. Yet some of the greatest successes in history have been those of this
class.
SUCCESS:
the
true
nature
of
a
nation’s
success
is
not
gross
national
product,
but
gross
national
happiness.
SUCCESS: Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it. 14th Dalai Lama
SUCCESS: Successful people shoot for the stars, put their hearts on the line in every battle, and
ultimately discover that the lessons learned from the pursuit of excellence mean much more than the
immediate trophies and glory. In the long run, painful losses may prove much more valuable than wins –
those who are armed with a healthy attitude and are able to draw wisdom from every experience
“good” or “bad,” are the ones who make it down the road. They are also the ones who are happier
along the way. Josh Waitzkin
SUCCESS/FAILURE:
Success
is
not
final.
Failure
is
not
fatal.
It
is
the
courage
to
continue
that
counts.
Winston
Churchill.
SUFFERING:
I’d
rather
die
young,
having
lived
a
life
crammed
with
meaning,
than
to
die
old,
even
in
security,
but
without
meaning.
Mev
Puleo,
1996
SUFFERING:
Jesus
didn’t
die
to
save
us
from
suffering
–
he
died
to
teach
us
how
to
suffer.
Mev
Puleo,
1996
SUFFERING:
Life
brings
sorrows
and
joys
alike.
It
is
what
a
man
does
with
them
–
not
what
they
do
to
him
–
that
is
the
true
test
of
his
mettle.
Theodore
Roosevelt
SUFFERING: Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, and stumble from
defeat to defeat. Anais Nin
SUFFERING:
They
say
of
our
temporal
suffering,
“No
future
bliss
can
make
up
for
it,”
not
knowing
that
heaven,
once
attained,
will
work
backwards
and
turn
even
that
agony
into
a
glory.
C.S.
Lewis
SUFFERING:
Though
Christianity
does
not
provide
the
reason
for
each
experience
of
pain,
it
provides
deep
resources
for
actually
facing
suffering
with
hope
and
courage
rather
than
bitterness
and
despair.
Tim
Keller,
The
Reason
for
God
SUFFERING: We must now preach to men for whom experience has made it obvious that god does not
rule. G.C. Berkouwer
SUPERIORS:
A
man
should
live
with
his
superiors
as
he
does
with
his
fire;
not
too
near,
lest
he
burn;
not
too
far
off,
lest
he
freeze.
Diogenes
SURVIVAL:
Man's
unique
reward,
however,
is
that
while
animals
survive
by
adjusting
themselves
to
their
background,
man
survives
by
adjusting
his
background
to
himself.
Ann
Rand
SUSPICION: suspicion is dangerous, but that does not mean that we should suspend our suspicions. It
means, rather, that we should suspect our suspicions, knowing their danger. Merold Westphal
SYNCRETISM:
Christianity
doesn’t
compete
with
pop
culture.
It
is
pop
culture.
Walter
Kim,
new
York
Times
columnist
TAKE CHARGE: When in command, take charge.
TALENT: If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. Thomas Wolfe
TALENT: Like the proverbial tree falling in the forest with no one around to hear, talent undiscovered
may as well not exist.
TEACHERS: He spoke softly, moved deeply, taught those who were ready to learn. Gems were after
thoughts, hidden beneath the breath, and you could pick them up or not – he hardly seemed to care. I
was amazed how much of his subtle instruction went unnoticed. Josh Waitzkin
TEAM: It takes great willpower and self-confidence to surround ourselves with smart, talented people
who we know will confront us. NO one enjoys being contradicted or corrected. Gary Kasparov
TEAM:
personally
I
have
never
been
able
to
understand
why
the
head
of
a
big
business,
whether
it
be
the
Nation,
the
State
or
the
Army,
or
Navy
should
not
desire
to
have
very
strong
and
positive
people
under
him.
Theodore
Roosevelt
TEAM:
The
leader
finds
greatness
in
the
group.
Theodore
Roosevelt
TEAMS: I surrounded myself with people who were far more talented and gifted then I was. This was
the secret to EDS’s success – the multiplier effect of all this talent. Ross Perot
Teamwork:
My
idea
fo
a
team
is
a
whole
lot
of
people
doing
what
I
tell
them
to
do.
(Sign
on
a
T‐shirt)
TECHNOLOGY:
Technology
is
the
knack
of
so
arranging
the
world
that
we
don’t
have
to
experience
it.
Max
Frisch,
Homo
Faber
TELEVISION: Television has achieved the status of “meta-medium’ an instrument that directs not only
our knowledge of the world but our knowledge of ways of knowing as well. Neil Postman, Amusing
Ouselves to Death
TELOS:
And
so
the
Spirit
sweeps
through
the
universe
with
resounding,
inspiring,
and
igniting
power,
evoking
the
response
of
renewed
vitality
until
the
last
day.
This
is
the
purpose
and
action
of
God.
Hildegard
of
Bingen
TELOS:
Man’s
chief
end
is
to
glorify
God,
and
to
enjoy
him
forever.
Westminster
Shorter
Catechism
THEOLOGIAN:
if
you
are
a
theologian
you
truly
pray.
If
you
truly
pray,
you
are
a
theologian.
Evagrius
Ponticus,
desert
father
385
THEOLOGY: the science of living blessedly forever. John Perkins / J.I. Packer
THEOLOGY:
Theology
has
to
stop
explaining
the
world
and
start
transforming
it.
Jose
Miguel
Bonino,
liberation
theologian
THEORY/PRACTICE:
it
is
far
easier
.
.
.
to
develop
and
preserve
a
spiritual
outlookon
life,
than
it
is
to
make
our
everyday
actions
harmonize
with
that
spiritual
outlook.
Evelyn
Underhill
THINKING:
A
great
many
people
think
they
are
thinking
when
they
are
really
rearranging
their
prejudices.
William
James
THINKING:
Acting
without
thinking
is
like
shooting
without
aiming.
B.C.
Forbes
THINKING:
An
honest
religious
thinker
is
like
a
tightrope
walker.
He
almost
looks
as
though
he
were
walking
on
nothing
but
air.
His
support
is
the
slenderest
imaginable.
And
yet
it
really
is
possible
to
walk
on
it.
Ludwig
Wittgenstein
THINKING:
I
am,
therefore
I
will
think.
Ann
Rand
THINKING:
The
mind
is
not
a
vessel
to
be
filled,
but
a
fire
to
be
ignited.
Plutarch
TIME,
EXPOSURED:
Time
will
reveal
everything.
It
is
a
babbler
and
speaks
even
when
not
asked.
Euripides
TIME, STRATEGIC: It’s not the amount of time that really counts – it’s the quality of your study and
how you use your time. Becoming a 24/7 fanatic who counts every minute and second isn’t going to
make you a success. The keys to great preparation are self-awareness and consistency. Gary Kasparov
TIMES: in times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. Paul Harvey
TIMING:
Ninth‐tenths
of
wisdom
consists
in
being
right
in
time.
Theodore
Roosevelt
TOOLS:
If
the
only
tool
you
have
is
a
hammer,
you
tend
to
see
every
problem
as
a
nail.
Abraham
Maslow
TOOLS:
We
shape
our
tools
and
afterward
out
tools
shape
us.
Marshall
McLuhan
TOYS:
Gear
is
to
men
what
jewelry
is
to
women.
Dan
Allender,
Leading
Character
TRADITION:
Again,
friends,
do
not
forget
that
we
are
proposing
no
new
principles.
The
doctrines
we
preach
reach
back
to
the
Golden
Rule
and
the
Sermon
on
the
Mount.
They
reach
back
to
the
commandments
delivered
at
Sinai.
All
that
we
are
asking
is
to
apply
those
doctrines
in
the
shape
necessary
to
make
them
available
for
meeting
the
living
issues
of
our
own
day.
Theodore
Roosevelt
TRADITION:
Bless
their
past
and
they
will
bless
your
future.
Damn
their
past,
and
they
will
damn
your
future.
Harold
Korver,
pastor
TRANSFORMATION:
The
opportunity
for
conversion
is
brief,
and
our
lives
are
littered
with
missed
opportunities.
Alan
Jones,
Soul
Making
TRANSITIONS:
Not
in
his
goals,
but
in
his
transitions
is
a
man
shown
to
be
great.
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson
TRAVEL:
The
world
is
a
book
and
those
who
do
not
travel
read
only
one
page.
St.
Augustine
TRIBES:
If
oral
culture
is
tribal
and
literature
culture
is
individual,
the
electronic
age
is
essentially
a
tribe
of
individuals.
Shane
Hipps
TRINITY:
The
doctrine
of
the
Trinity
overloads
our
mental
circuits.
Despite
its
cognitive
difficulty,
however,
this
astonishing,
dynamic
conception
of
the
triune
God
is
bristling
with
profound,
wonderful,
life‐shaping,
world‐changing
implications.
Tim
Keller,
The
Reason
for
God
TRUST:
All
shall
be
well,
and
all
manner
of
things
shall
be
well.
Julian
of
Norwich
TRUST: Followers buy in to the leader before anything else. The vision may be compelling, but is the
leader worth following? The rewards may be inspiring, but can the leader be trusted? The environment
may be inviting, but does the leader care about his or her own people? The resources may be abundant
but does the leader have character? Chris Brady
TRUST:
I
did
not
have
to
know
everything,
and
that,
in
seeking
to
know
everything,
I’d
been,
all
of
my
life,
missing
the
entire
point.
Anne
Rice,
Called
out
of
Darkness
TRUST:
Leadership
is
built
on
trust;
extraordinary
leadersip
is
built
on
extraordinary
trust;
extraordinary
trust
is
built
on
a
leader’s
adherence
to
shared
tenets
of
personal
morality.
James
Strock,
Roosevelt
TRUTH, CRUELTY: it is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. Anatole
Francois Thibault
TRUTH:
Every
truth
without
exception
–
and
whoever
may
utter
it
–
is
from
the
Holy
Spirit.
Thomas
Aquinas
TRUTH:
It
(truth)
always
demands
fresh
lyricization,
new
ways
of
putting
it,
new
wine
and
new
wineskins,
new
ways
of
listening
for
the
word
of
the
Lord.
David
Dark,
Sacred
of
Questioning
Everything
TRUTH: No faith can command a man’s final and absolute allegiance, that is to say not faith can be a
man’s real religion, if he knows that it is only true for certain places and certain people. Leslie
Newbigin
TRUTH:
Only
by
participating
in
the
truth
can
you
share
in
the
meaning
of
truth.
St.
Gregory
of
Sinai
TRUTH:
Plato
is
dear
to
me,
yet
dearer
is
truth.
Aristotle
TRUTH:
The
truth
is
mightier
than
eloquence,
the
Spirit
greater
than
genius,
faith
more
than
education.
Martin
Luther
TRUTH:
Truth
is
relentlessly
narratival.
Walter
Brueggemann
TRUTH: We hate the truth, and people hide if from us; we want to be flattered and people flatter us;
we like being deceived, and we are deceived. Blaise Pascal
TRUTH:
When
the
dogmatic
principle
in
religion
is
slighted,
religion
goes
along
for
a
while
on
generalized
emotion
and
ethical
intention
.
.
.
and
then
loses
the
force
of
its
impulse,
then
the
essence
of
its
being.
Lionel
Trilling
TRUTH: You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd. Flannery O’Connor
TRUTH/ERROR:
Unless
one
carefully
examines
in
order
to
ascertain
if
one’s
path
is
the
path
of
truth,
the
slightest
initial
distortion
later
becomes
a
large
distortion.
Miyamoto
Musashi,
The
Book
of
Five
Rings
TV, SPECTATORS: The spectator experience is passive, mesmeric, undiscriminating and therefore, not
conducive to the refinement of the critical faculties: logic and imagination; linguistic precision,
historical awareness and a capacity for long, intense absorption. Mark Miller, Boxed-In: The Culture of
TV
UNDERSTANDING: To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is
necessary to follow, in order to lead. William Hazlitt
UNHAPPINESS:
O
why
are
so
haggard
at
the
heart,
so
care‐coiled,
care‐killed
.
.
.
so
cogged,
so
cumbered.
Gerard
Manley
Hopkins
UNHAPPINESS:
Unhappiness
is
not
knowing
what
we
want
and
killing
ourselves
to
get
it.
Don
Herold
UNKNOWN:
There
are
known
knowns.
There
are
things
we
know
that
we
know.
There
are
known
unknowns.
That
is
to
say
there
are
things
that
we
now
know
we
don’t
know.
But
there
are
also
unknown
unknowns.
There
are
things
we
don’t
know
we
don’t
know.
Donald
Rumsfeld
URGENCY: I don’t have a sense of crisis, I have a sense of urgency that never changes, whether we’re
doing well or we’re doing poorly. Louis Gerstner
VALUES,
SELF‐DESTRUCTION:
The
things
that
will
destroy
America
are
prosperity‐at‐any=prince,
safety‐
first
instead
of
duty
first,
the
love
of
soft
living,
and
the
get‐rich‐quick
theory
of
life.
Theodore
Roosevelt
VALUES: It is easier to exemplify values than teach them. Theodore Hesburgh
VERBS: Verbs I think, matter most. Asked for his name, God gave Moses a verb. Marilyn Chandler
McEntyre, Caring for Words
VICE: it has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln
VIRTUE,
SELF‐AWARENESS:
If
you
wish
to
become
virtuous,
first
acknowledge
that
you
are
not.
Epictetus
VIRTUE;
Cities
must
be
beautified
not
with
beautiful
buildings,
but
with
the
virtues
of
their
citizens.
Zeno
of
Elea
VIRTUE: All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. Theodore Hesburgh
VIRTUE:
Before
virtue,
Gods
have
placed
sweat.
Hesiod
VIRTUE:
Virtue
is
not
wronging
others,
but
not
wishing
to
wrong
others.
Democritus
VIRTUES:
All
the
virtues
are
cultivated
by
studying
and
learning.
Xenophon
VISION,
DIRECTION:
You
can’t
really
predict
exactly
what
will
happen,
but
you
can
feel
the
direction
that
we’re
going
in.
And
that’s
about
as
close
as
you
can
get.
Then
you
just
stand
back
and
get
out
of
the
way,
and
these
things
take
on
a
life
of
their
own.
Steve
Jobs
VISION: God hates visionary dreaming; it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. Dietrich
Bonhoeffer.
VISION: Hitch your wagon to a star. Ralph Waldo Emerson
VISION:
I
dream
of
things
that
are
not
and
ask
why
not.
Robert
F.
Kennedy
VISION:
If
I
had
asked
my
customers
what
they
wanted,
they’d
have
said
a
faster
horse.
Henry
Ford
VISION: Leaders inspire a shared vision. They gaze across the horizon of time, imagining the attractive
opportunities that are in store when they and their constituents arrive at a distant destination. Kouzes
and Posner
VISION:
Radio
has
no
future.
Heavier‐than‐air
flying
machines
are
impossible.
X‐rays
will
prove
to
be
a
hoax.
Lord
Kelvin,
physicist,
1899
VISION:
Sometimes
we
have
the
dream
but
we
are
not
ourselves
ready
for
the
dream.
We
have
to
grow
to
meet
it.
Louis
L'Amour
VISION:
The
(atomic)
bomb
will
never
go
off.
I
speak
as
an
expert
in
explosives.
Admiral
William
Leahy
VISION:
The
first
goal
need
not
be
the
final
one,
for
a
sailing
ship
sails
first
by
one
wind,
then
another.
The
point
is
that
it
is
always
going
somewhere,
proceeding
toward
a
final
destination.
Louis
L'Amour
VISION: The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision; you can’t blow an uncertain
trumpet. Theodore Hesburgh
VISION:
Throughout
the
centuries
there
were
men
who
took
first
steps
down
new
roads
armed
with
nothing
but
their
own
vision."
Ayn
Rand
VISION: To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. Anatole France, French novelist
VISION:
To
be
one
of
the
most
well‐known
and
respected
organizations
in
the
world
known
for
nurturing
and
inspiring
the
human
spirit.
Starbucks
vision
VISION: We need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream
greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their
own burning souls. Theordore Roosevelt
VISION:
You
must
have
a
long‐range
vision
to
keep
you
from
being
frustrated
by
short‐term
failures.
Charles
Noble
VISION:
Your
vision
will
become
clear
only
when
you
can
look
into
your
own
heart.
Who
looks
outside,
dreams;
who
looks
inside,
awakens.
Carl
Jung
VISION:
If
I
have
seen
further
it
is
by
standing
on
the
shoulders
of
giants.
Isaac
newton
VISION/DREAMS:
Dreams
are
answers
to
questions
we
haven’t
yet
figured
out
how
to
ask.
Fox
Mulder,
X‐Files
VISION/DREAMS:
If
one
advances
confidently
in
the
direction
of
his
dreams,
and
endeavors
to
live
the
life
which
he
has
imagined,
he
will
meet
with
a
success
unexpected
in
common
hours.
Henry
David
Thoreau
VISION/DREAMS:
The
dream
was
always
running
ahead
of
me.
To
catch
up,
to
live
for
a
moment
in
unison
with
it,
that
was
the
miracle.
Anais
Nin
VITAL
OPTIMISM:
Success
is
for
the
people
at
the
precipice.
The
entrepreneurs,
innovators,
risk
takers,
and
dreamers.
We
remind
you
to
never
stop
thinking.
Proactively
seek
out
fresh
answers.
Find
partners.
Remember
that
you
are
only
as
smart
as
the
people
you
surround
yourself
with.
Seek
out
people
who
are
smarter
than
you
are
.
.
.
Become
cosmonauts
of
change.
Motivate
forward.
Find
your
buzz.
Remember
that
life
is
continual
uncovering.
Most
of
all,
discover
the
things
that
thrill
you
and
do
them.
In
the
end,
they
are
the
only
reason
to
get
up
in
the
morning.
Pat
Hanlon,
Thinktopia
creed
VOCATION:
Live
your
own
joyfully.
VOCATION: Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life
and try to understand what it is truly about - quite apart from what I would like it to be about - or my
life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions. That insight
is hidden in the word vocation itself, which is rooted in the Latin for "voice." Vocation does not mean a
goal that I pursue. It means a calling that I hear. Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I
must listen to my life telling me who I am. Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak
VOCATION/WORK:
Most
of
us
have
jobs
that
are
too
small
for
our
spirit.
Studs
Terkel
VOCATION/WORK:
The
pitcher
cries
for
water
to
carry
and
a
person
for
work
that
is
real.
Marge
Piercy
VOCATION/WORK:
The
work
exists
for
the
person
as
much
as
the
person
exists
for
the
work.
Robert
Greenleaf
VOICE: We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. Arthur Schopenhauer
WAR: I hate battles . . . you lose your friends and your best men. Duke of Wellington
WAR: I hope to God I have fought my last battle. It is a bad thing always to be fighting. While I am in
the thick of it I am too much occupied to feel anything. But it is wretched just after. It is quite
impossible to think of glory. Both mind and feelings are exhausted. I am wretched even at the moment
of victory, and I always say that next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained. Duke of
Wellington
WAY
OF
CHRIST:
The
Christian
way
is
different
–
both
harder
and
easier.
Christ
says,
“Give
me
ALL.
I
don’t
want
just
this
much
of
your
time
and
this
much
of
your
money
and
this
much
of
your
work
–
so
that
your
natural
self
can
have
the
rest.
I
want
you.
Not
your
things.
I
have
not
come
to
torture
your
natural
self
.
.
.
I
will
give
you
a
new
self
instead.
Hand
over
the
whole
natural
self
–
ALL
the
desires,
not
just
the
ones
you
think
wicked
but
the
ones
you
think
innocent
–
the
whole
outfit.
I
will
give
you
a
new
self
instead.”
The
almost
impossibly
hard
thing
is
to
hand
over
your
whole
self
to
Christ.
But
it
is
far
easier
than
what
we
are
all
trying
to
do
instead.
For
what
we
are
trying
to
do
is
remain
what
we
call
“ourselves”
–
our
personal
happiness
centered
on
money
or
pleasure
or
ambition
–
and
hoping,
despite
this,
to
behave
honestly
and
chastely
and
humbly.
And
that
is
exactly
what
Christ
warned
us
you
cannot
do.
C.S.
Lewis
WEALTH: He who dies wealthy, dies disgraced. Andrew Carnegie
WELLS:
If
we
desire
fresh,
cool
water,
we
must
dig
a
deeper
well.
We
will
not
find
pure,
refreshing
water
by
digging
many
shallow
wells.
Twenty‐first
century
humans
are
masters
of
digging
shallow
wells
spiritually,
intellectually,
and
creatively,
and
it
is
killing
us.
Dick
Staub,
The
Culturally
Savvy
Christian
WIFE, MARTYR: What should the wife of saint be called? A martyr? Frank Earl
WISDOM:
A
mind,
like
a
home,
is
furnished
by
its
owner,
so
if
one's
life
is
cold
and
bare
he
can
blame
none
but
himself.
You
have
a
chance
to
select
from
some
pretty
elegant
furnishings.
Louis
L'Amour
WISDOM:
A
sword
is
never
enough.
The
mind
is
also
a
weapon,
but
like
the
sword
it
must
be
honed
and
kept
sharp.
Louis
L'Amour
WISDOM:
He
who
can
properly
summarize
many
ideas
in
a
brief
statement,
is
a
wise
man.
Euripides
WISDOM:
In
pursuit
of
knowledge,
every
day
something
is
acquired.
In
pursuit
of
wisdom,
every
day
something
is
dropped.
Lao
Tzu
WISDOM:
Money
can
be
lost
or
stolen,
health
and
strength
may
fail,
but
what
you
have
committed
to
your
mind
is
yours
forever.
Louis
L'Amour
WISDOM: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
WISDOM: We are in the Information Age. And it really won’t be the quality of information but the
quality of interpreting that information that will make the difference.
WISDOM:
Wisdom
comes
at
the
price
of
suffering.
Aeschylus,
Agamemnon
WISDOM: Wisdom comes from good judgment, answered the master. But how does one obtain good
judgment asked the apprentice. By experiencing enough bad judgment answered the master.
WISELY STRATEGIC: I see you’ve been busy. Now tell me what you’ve accomplished. James A. Autry
WOMEN:
I
don’t
think
a
woman
should
be
in
any
government
job
whatsoever
.
.
.
mainly
because
they
are
erratic.
And
emotional.
Men
are
erratic
and
emotional,
too,
but
the
point
is
a
woman
is
more
likely
to
be.
President
Richard
Nixon
on
why
he
would
not
appoint
a
woman
to
the
Supreme
Court
WOMEN:
There
is
a
real
penalty
for
a
woman
who
behaves
like
a
man.
The
men
don’t
like
her
and
the
women
don’t
either.
WOMEN:
What
does
a
woman
want?
Freud
famously
asked.
Simple.
She
wants
a
partner
who
cares
what
she
wants,
Daniel
Goleman
famously
answered.
WOMEN: Women have for centuries been recognized as talented listeners, nurturers, motivators,
excellent communicators. These very qualities that we once were told were unbusinesslike are
precisely the qualities that business needs most to tap human potential. Mary Cunningham Agee
WONDER:
The
sole
origin
of
philosophy
is
wonder.
Socrates
WORDS: He was not a word musician. His ear was satisfied with the approximate word. Mark Twain
speaking about Fenimore Cooper
WORDS: Our lives are lived in relationship to words, written and spoken, sacred and mundane. They
are manna for the journey. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words
WORDS: Words are entrusted to us as equipment for our life together, to help us survive, guide, and
nourish one another. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words
WORDS:
Words
are
of
course,
the
most
powerful
drug
used
by
mankind.
Rudyard
Kipling
WORDS:
Words
with
me
are
instruments.
I
wish
to
impress
upon
the
people
to
whom
I
talk
the
fact
that
I
am
sincere,
that
I
mean
exactly
what
I
say,
and
that
I
stand
for
the
things
that
are
elemental
in
civilization.
Theodore
Roosevelt
WORK ETHIC, INTENTIONALITY: Without the ceaseless work ethic, Michael Jordan is merely another
talented athlete gliding through an admirable career, but nothing historic.
WORK ETHIC: I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. Thomas
Jefferson
WORK:
Live
for
your
days
on,
not
your
days
off.
Marcia
Hughes,
Emotionally
Intelligent
Teams
WORKS:
We
may
all
have
a
closet
full
of
works
that
we
are
not
proud
of,
works
that
need
permission
to
come
out.
Fujimura,
Refractions
WORLDVIEW, MORALITY: Declining morality is not the cause of a war of worldviews but evidence of
it. During times of titanic cultural upheaval, central moral battles rise to the surface. As the old order
passes and a new order rises up, the old moral restraints begin to fall away before the new boundaries
have stabilized. Rex Miller, Millennium Matrix
WRINKLES:
Age
wrinkles
the
body.
Quitting
wrinkles
the
soul.
Douglas
MacArthur
WRINKLES:
You
don’t
get
old
from
living
a
particular
number
of
years;
you
get
old
because
you
have
deserted
your
ideals.
Years
wrinkle
your
skin;
renouncing
your
ideals
wrinkles
your
soul.
Worry,
doubt,
fear,
and
despair
are
the
enemies
which
slowly
bring
us
down
to
the
ground
and
turn
us
to
dust
before
we
die.
Douglas
MacArthur
WRITING:
Unprovided
with
original
learning,
uninformed
in
the
habits
of
thinking,
unskilled
in
the
art
of
composition,
I
resolved
to
write
a
book.
Edward
Gibbon,
the
Decline
and
Fall
of
the
Roman
Empire
WRITING:
Writing
a
book
is
an
adventure.
To
begin
with,
it
is
a
toy
and
an
amusement;
then
it
becomes
a
mistress.
Winston
Churchill
WRITING:
Your
manuscript
is
both
good
and
original,
but
eh
part
that
is
good
is
not
original
and
the
part
that
is
original
is
not
good.
Samuel
Johnson
YES:
Those
who
think
“no”
is
the
most
powerful
word
are
missing
something.
“Yes”
is
the
most
powerful
word.
Yes
is
freeing
and
inspiring.
It
means
permission.
It
means
possibility.
It
means
you
give
yourself
and
others
the
chance
to
dream.
Saying
yes
makes
you
feel
good.
Howard
Behar,
It’s
Not
About
the
Coffee
YOUTH:
I
see
no
hope
for
the
future
of
our
people
if
they
depend
on
the
frivolous
youth
of
today,
for
certainly
all
youth
are
reckless
beyond
words.
When
I
was
a
boy
we
were
taught
to
be
discreet
and
respectful
of
elders,
but
the
present
youth
are
exceedingly
wild
and
impatient
of
restraint.
Greek
poet
Hesiod,
800
B.C.
YOUTH:
When
you’re
young,
you
don’t
know
what
you
don’t
know.
We
just
did
it.
ZEAL:
Moderation
in
all
things,
except
in
zeal
for
Christ.