"Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others."

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Source : James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.397, Open Road Media

James MacGregor Burns

#Play Quotes #Leader Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
“The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.”

Source : William Bateson, Gregor Mendel (1902). “Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defence”
“Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.”
“It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.”
“Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.”
“I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.”

Source : Jerry Uelsmann, James Enyeart (1980). “Jerry N. Uelsmann: Photographs from 1975-1979”
“Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he?”
“Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.”

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