"A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term."

-- Robert Reich

#Leadership Quotes #Teamwork Quotes #Long Quotes

“We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.”

Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt
“The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.”
“When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope.”
“There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
“The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.”

Source : Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA
“The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but he refuses to hate him. And he stands with understanding, goodwill at all times.”
“I am not going to show you my art. I am going to share it with you. If I show it to you it becomes an exhibition, and in time it will be pushed so far into the back of your mind that it will be lost. But by sharing it with you, you will not only retain it forever, but I too will improve.”
“The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.”

Source : Raj Patel (2009). “The Value Of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy”, p.29, Granta

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