Emotion And Leadership Quotes & Sayings

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them. — Ron Suskind

The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent. — John Ferling

If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Emotions are a critical source of information for learning. — Joseph E. Ledoux

Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both. — Jon Meacham

While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and he must manage them and lead them, but he must not succumb to personal feelings. His job is to maintain a ruthless sense of proportion while keeping the coldness of his calculation to himself. — George Friedman

The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in common, overreact to daily events and lose sight of overall strategy. — William Manchester

Bite your teeth into the ass of life. — Ian Holm

Believers need to be visible, — Karen Kingsbury

In times of crisis, you get a public reaction that is incoherence on stilts. On the one hand, most people know that the government is not in the oil business. They don't want it in the oil business. They know there is nothing a man in Washington can do to plug a hole a mile down in the gulf.
On the other hand, they demand that the president 'take control.' They demand that he hold press conferences, show leadership, announce that the buck stops here and do something. They want him to emote and perform the proper theatrical gestures so they can see their emotions enacted on the public stage.
They want to hold him responsible for things they know he doesn't control. Their reaction is a mixture of disgust, anger, longing and need. It may not make sense. But it doesn't make sense that the country wants spending cuts and doesn't want cuts, wants change and doesn't want change. — David Brooks

What distinguished him in a moment of crisis was his self-command. — T. J. Stiles

Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves — Brian Tracy

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil. — Daniel Yergin

Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it. — Karen Joy Fowler

Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted to howl in rage. It is not my place to do so. My job is to try to dissect the event, place it in context and try to understand what has happened and why. From that, after the rage cools, plans for action can be made. Rage has its place, but actions must be taken with discipline and thought. — George Friedman

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe. — Barbara W. Tuchman

We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate. — Geneva Overholser

John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess. — John Taliaferro

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise. — Andy Hargreaves

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason. — Antonio Damasio

It has long been a bug bear of mine ... it needs to change, very simply. — Lucinda Creighton

The ability of the Malay political leadership through UMNO to mobilize Malay public opinion caught the British by surprise. A people who only a decade earlier had seemed docile and apathetic were suddenly making their views known through mass demonstrations. The strength and emotion of the Malay reaction convinced the British that they had miscalculated. The British sat down with the Malay political leadership to come up with an alternative to the Malayan Union. — Anonymous

In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him. — Jeff Greenfield

It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him. — Frank Herbert

Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air and hope. — George Friedman

Pique or policy. We would never know. — Roger Kahn

No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist. — William Allen White