Mcgannon Quotes & Sayings

When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility. — Bryant McGill

Leadership is action, not position — Donald McGannon

Leadership is an action, not a position. — Donald McGannon

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent. — Travis Bradberry

Television's compelling power is its immediacy .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues. — Hedrick Smith

Seven years is a long time, and he was there for me, when my mum died. He was very compassionate at that time. I couldn't have found anyone better in that situation. — Mary Elizabeth Donaldson

There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves. — Mike Krzyzewski

The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed. — Donald McGannon

We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there? — Buzz Aldrin

Listening to the bell I feel the afflictions in me begin to dissolve. My mind becomes calm, my body relaxed, and a smile is born on my lips. Following the sound of the bell, my breath guides me back to the safe island of mindfulness. In the garden of my heart, the flower of peace blooms beautifully. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable. — Errol Morris

Perhaps the most powerful cause of the breakdown of the closed society was the development of sea-communications and commerce. Close contact with other tribes is liable to undermine the feeling of necessity with which tribal institutions are viewed; and trade, commercial initiative, appears to be one of the few forms in which individual initiative and independence can assert itself, even in a society in which tribalism still prevails. These two, seafaring and commerce, became the main characteristics of Athenian imperialism, as it developed in the fifth century B.C. And indeed they were recognized as the most dangerous developments by the oligarchs, the members of the privileged, or of the formerly privileged, classes of Athens. — Karl Popper

No one could control the length of their life, but they could control how they lived it. — Lindy Zart

It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this. — Jonathan Franzen

You could teach an animal to learn your language, but you'd be missing the point. The point was to learn its language. Only then would you understand. — Ilie Ruby

We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about. — Ai Weiwei

I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man. — Bear Grylls

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page — Laurie Halse Anderson