Depree Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes we think we're a little too gifted to show up, yo uknow. But none of us truly is ... By avoiding risk we really risk what's most important in life
reaching toward growth, our potential, and a true contribution to a common good. — Max DePree

Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work. — Walter Kirn

If you're a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it's a street corner or a coffee shop. I got my start in a coffee shop that didn't even have live music. I wanted to play in coffee shops that did have live music, but I didn't have an audience. — Jason Mraz

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us. — Max DePree

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. — Max DePree

But now that the vivid consciousness of an earlier state had come back to him, the Professor felt that life with this Kansas boy, little as there had been of it, was the realest of his lives, and that all the years between had been accidental and ordered from the outside. His career, his wife, his family, were not his life at all, but a chain of events which had happened to him. All these things had nothing to do with the person he was in the beginning. The — Willa Cather

Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise. — Max DePree

I love you as only the starving wolf can love the wounded deer — Anonymous

The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury them, only to have them rise to meet you in sleep. Mostly the scenes are familiar, but sometimes everything is strange, the people unknown. — Tim Winton

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are. — Max DePree

If you want to get rid of Rose then fine, I'll take care of it. But I don't think that is going to solve your problem. You'll still be here. And you are your problem. — Holly Hood

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE. — Max DePree

Channeled correctly and integrated properly, our diversity can be our greatest strength. — Max DePree

In the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'" — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Reading together draws family closer together. — J. Hale Turner

All of life is change. When we learn to stop fighting it, that's when we can start to be happy. — Traci Depree

As anxious and limited as that love might have been, it had been love nonetheless. — Wally Lamb

We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are. — Max DePree

When something is "all in your mind," people tend to think that it's willful, that it's something you could control if only you tried harder or if you had been trained differently. I'm hoping that the newfound certainty that autism is in your brain and in your genes will affect public attitudes. — Temple Grandin

(Productive Workers + Innovative Products = Industry Leadership, no?) — Max DePree

Notice I did not say what people can do
what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be. — Max DePree

Only a group of people who share a body of knowledge and continually learn together can stay vital and viable. — Max DePree

I don't come with the wheelchair. The wheelchair comes with me. — Max DePree