"We become overly reliant on the strengths that got us where we are today. We also become isolated as we move up in the organization. Unless we have the benefit of assessment, and unless we invite feedback on our leadership, we continue to lean on strengths that can actually work against us, and fail to expand our leadership style in a way that makes us more effective."

“To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.”

Source : Letter to his family from Dapitan, 1884.

“I'm a street fighter. I'm ready for any kind of mixed martial arts that comes at me.”

“I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire ...”

“[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.”

“I'm not leaving until you tell me why you followed me. I know I'm a fascinating guy, but this is starting to feel like an unhealthy obsession.”

“While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing.”

Source : "Being a Voice for Our Veterans" by Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2010.

“We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.”

“The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.”

Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”