"Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership."

-- Marcus Buckingham

#Ifs And Quotes #Leader Quotes #Progress Quotes

“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

Source : CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”
“Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government.”
“Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America, because they are afraid that having American support will be the kiss of death for their movement. And that's really tragic.”
“Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.”
“Everything speeds up and it's blurry for a minute. But you've got to have a little patience sometimes to just find a soft spot. There's always a soft spot in the defense, and it's your job to find it.”
“Nice girls aren't always what they seem.”
“Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.”
“So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.”

Source : Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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