"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."

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Source : Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

Colin Powell

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“The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.”
“What I know now is that everybody in life, no matter where you are or what you do, must be able to sell in order to be successful. I used to believe that I could be successful on talent alone. What I realize now is that I can only be successful if I can have people buy my talent.”

Source : "Don Yaeger on “Great Teams”: Part 1". Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. September 28, 2016.
“If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.”
“Our workers, our American people who are already struggling, are going to continue to struggle until we can get somebody who can bring some business sense to Washington D.C., and I think that is the one thing I bring.”
“God made me an Indian.”
“...words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.”

Source : Joseph Pearce (2012). “Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning of the Hobbit”, p.27, TAN Books
“I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 22, 2003.
“Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation.”

Source : 'The True-Born Englishman' (1701) pt. 1, l. 1.

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