"Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible."

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Source : Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

Max De Pree

#People Quotes #Way Quotes #Humane Quotes

“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.”
“In your thirties, you're much more comfortable with sex. First of all, sex is something you've done more. You know you can have sex just to have sex; you can have sex with friends; you can have sex with people you love; you can have sex with people you don't like, but the sex is good. And you can joke about sex much more.”
“As an actor, youâ€™ve got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself.”
“I've always felt that most jazz artists don't need producers .. most jazz artists know what kind of sound they want. They don't need a producer to come in there and tell them, "Oh, I think you should do this." I've always found it very strange that there's been such a thing as producers in jazz.”
“There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and greed. So how is one to say exactly where history begins or ends? It is all slow oscillations, curves, and waves which take so long to reveal themselves ... like watching a tree grow.”

Source : Gretel Ehrlich (2017). “Heart Mountain: A Novel”, p.38, Open Road Media
“Loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.”
“The quality of leaders matters less than the quality of citizens.”
“Hunger is the handmaid of genius”

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