"Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character."

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Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

Lewis H. Lapham

#Leadership Quotes #Character Quotes #Technique Quotes

“No matter how hard it gets, Iâ€™d rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss”
“The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.”

Source : Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.
“If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.”

Source : Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”
“It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.”
“when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.”
“I suppose I'm just an old soul.”
“one of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again ushered three babies back to their beds, against the odds, unscathed and peaceful. Happiness was a houseful of safe, inert bodies. Actually, it still is.”
“The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric. Acknowledging the role of molecules that have stereoisomers, some the mirror image of the others, and microorganisms whose chemistry prefers only one of those forms.”

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