"A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment."

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Source : Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.33, Penguin

Dean Smith

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“Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.”

Source : Alice Weaver Flaherty (2015). “The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.”
“But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself.”

Source : Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber (2004). “Harpo Speaks!”, p.432, Hal Leonard Corporation
“Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.”
“The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you”
“It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.”
“Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think”
“You know how everybody has that one weird creepy uncle? Well, Seth Green looks like he got raped by all of them.”

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