Discernment And Leadership Quotes & Sayings

All men dream, but nor equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. This I did. — T.E. Lawrence

Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric. — George Friedman

Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied. — Mark Billingham

You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness. so saturated with flavor that it fills your whole body, not just your mouth. — Mike Carey

It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do. — Geraldine Brooks

Life is enough of everything. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin. — Jessie Andrews

A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don't care if filing invoices is beneath you. If you don't do it, who do you think is going to? Your boss? Nope. That's why she hired you. — Sophia Amoruso

I love having fans of all ages but it's especially cool for me to have young fans. I hope to be a role model for kids who want to follow their dreams. — Hoodie Allen

He's got a smile on his face like none Jamie has seen ever before, but being only nineteen and living way out here on what some call the Rim and others call the Crescent, there's plenty he's never seen before. Or will ever see, way it looks now. It's a sick smile, but there's no cowardice in it. Jamie guesses he's wearing one just like it. Here they are under the sun of their fathers, and the darkness will soon have them. They've come to their dying hour. — Stephen King

Everyone in my family used to work with some kind of tool in their hands every day. That's what we do. That's what I did before I got into acting. — Matt LeBlanc

On the nights I stuffed myself full of myths, I dreamed of college, of being pumped full of all the old knowledge until I knew everything there was to know, all the past cultures picked clean like delicious roasted chicken. — Lauren Groff

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying. — Michel De Montaigne

Why fight to the death when we can love eachother to death? — Sigurd Bache Hungnes

The word of wisdom is missing," he continued. "We need the gift of discernment again in our pulpits. It is not ability to predict that we need, but the anointed eye, the power of spiritual penetration and interpretation, the ability to appraise the religious scene as viewed from God's position, and to tell us what is actually going on — A.W. Tozer

Too often pastors address problems from within the flawed assumptions of their culture and training. Unable to see how problems are forming, and how their leadership is often a cause, church leaders employ legalistic or democratic remedies to issues that require Spirit-directed discernment, repentance, and forgiveness. Meanwhile, leaders have to deal with members who, as noted above, insist on rights and want to "vote" instead of submit. — Jim Van Yperen

Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself. — Barbara W. Tuchman

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists. — Sherry Turkle

I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married. — Candace Bushnell

A: Money is energy. It provides our basic needs and it gives us choices and opportunities. When you have accumulated wealth, you can choose, do I want to work? Or when do I want to work? Do I want to help out this charity in town or the other charity that has a worldwide outreach? — Celso Cukierkorn