"In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership."

-- Donald Rumsfeld

#Leadership Quotes #Thinking Quotes #President Quotes

“Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for a regime that has been as hostile as Iran has been towards America for more than three decades. President Rouhani needs to take these two simple steps to demonstrate good faith before any further discussions.”
“The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.”
“Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat diseases but they also treat people, and this precondition of their professional existence sometimes pulls them in two directions at once.”

Source : June Goodfield (1975). “The Siege of Cancer”
“The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.”
“A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.”
“And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.”
“We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.”
“The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.”

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