"The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership."

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Source : Garry Wills (2013). “Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

Garry Wills

#Leadership Quotes #Goal Quotes #Support Quotes

“When you see a handwritten envelope addressed to you in your packet of mail when you get your mail out of the mailbox - when you see a personal letter waiting for you - it's exciting. It touches you. You say "Oh, somebody really thought of me and didn't just slap a mailing label across an envelope. Somebody wrote something to me."”
“Even if you think you're doing well and have it all figured out, there is a voice you will always inevitably hear at some point which nags at you and says "but wait..." Don't ever dismiss it, listen to what it has to say. Life will never be close enough to perfect, and listening to that voice means stepping outside of yourself and considering your own wrongdoings and flaws.”
“Bottoms are alchemists who magically transform pain into sex.”
“It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.”
“The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject will profit enormously by becoming acquainted with Brunton's seminal work.”
“In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.”
“Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.”
“It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?"”

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