"Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough."

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Source : Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (2002). “Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness”, p.43, Paulist Press

Robert K. Greenleaf

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“City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.”
“We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.”
“Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.”

Source : George Perkins Marsh (1864). “Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action”, p.10, New York : C. Scribner
“You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.”
“In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.”
“The Sun, each second, transforms four million tons of itself into light, giving itself over to become energy that we, with every meal, partake of. For four million years, humans have been feasting on the Sunâ€™s energy stored in the form of wheat or reindeer. Brian Swimme”
“When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.”
“I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.”

Source : "Fantasia Barrino Is Third 'American Idol'". www.foxnews.com. May 27, 2004.

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