"It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Leadership Quotes #Over You Quotes #Trying Quotes

“That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.”

Source : Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.18, Library of America
“I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there.”
“Villains can often be one note and I would say in that case, it's not fun to play the villain. It's fun to play the villain if he a) has dimension and b) the villain gets to do all the things in the movie that in life he would get punished for. In the movie, you're applauded for them if you do them with panache. And so that's why it's more fun to play the villain.”
“My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.”
“I am the Love that dare not speak its name.”

Source : Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (1990). “"Two Loves" & Other Poems: A Selection”
“In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.”
“kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.”
“Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.”

Source : "'King of Devil's Island': Stellan Skarsgård mentors" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. January 5, 2012.

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