"Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure."

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Source : "Naval Leadership : Voices of Experience". Book by Karel Montor (p. 18), 1998.

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“No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.”
“Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.”
“The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.”
“There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.”

Source : "Amy Smart Talks About Getting to Play Bad". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. August 9, 2006.
“The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species”

Source : Johann Gottfried Herder (1800). “Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man”, p.222
“The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems.”
“I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house.”
“The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.”

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