"Managers’ typical response to my argument about free time is, ‘That’s all well and good, but there are things I have to do.’ Yet we waste so much time in unproductive activity—it takes an enormous effort on the part of the leader to keep free time for the truly important things."

#Effort Quotes #Leader Quotes #Important Quotes

“As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.”
“My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.”
“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.”
“At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.”

Source : Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.10, Vintage
“There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.”
“There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.”
“So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.”

Source : "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.
“If you won't believe in yourself, who will?”

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