"The important word there is inspire. The key difference between managers and leaders is that managers tell people what to do, while leaders inspire them to do it. Inspiration comes from three things: clarity of one's vision, courage of their conviction and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things."

-- Jeff Weiner

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“I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.134, I.B.Tauris
“To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed. Major psychological disturbances, 'identity crises', are caused when an individual begins to change the audience for whom he plays: from parents to peers; from peers to the works of Albert Camus; from the Bible to Hugh Hefner.”

Source : Luke Rhinehart (1998). “Dice Man”, p.93, The Overlook Press
“As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.”
“I believe that, seven generations beyond us, those who look back on our time will find that it was the cry of the trees that helped to restart the dreaming and foster the understanding that we must dream not only for ourselves but also for our communities and for all that shares life with us in our fragile bubble of air.”

Source : Robert Moss (2011). “Active Dreaming: Journeying Beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom”, p.192, New World Library
“If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.”
“I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.”

Source : William G. Tapply (1997). “A Fly-Fishing Life”
“Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.”
“I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.”

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