Nehemiahs Leadership Quotes & Sayings

Don't patronize me, Caro", he said, sounding even angrier. "You think I don't know what it means to make this commitment but I do ... Don't dismiss how I feel just because ... just because I'm younger than you. — Jane Harvey-Berrick

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes. — Desmond Tutu

Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being ... my essence ... is a part of all Being, all Essence. — Nancy J. Napier

There's people trying to tell me what to do, but I'm not like some marketing scam. — Sky Ferreira

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it. — Stanley Baldwin

Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom. — David F. Swensen

But that's the thing about East Texas. Red dirt never quite washes out, and pine pollen is tenacious as original sin. You can leave East Texas, for Houston, for the Metroplex, for the Commonwealth, for New York, or Bonn or Tokyo or Kowloon; but you can never quite leave it behind. — Markham Shaw Pyle

As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how any one brain pathway is used. — Robin Marantz Henig

For generation after generation, Adamses and Brookses and Boylstons and Gorhams had gone to Harvard College, and although none of them, as far as known had ever done any good there, or thought himself the better for it, custom, social ties, convenience, and, above all, economy, kept each generation in the track. Any other education would have required a serious effort, but no one took Harvard College seriously. All went there because their friends went there, and the College was their ideal of social self-respect.

Harvard College, as far as it educated all, was a mild and liberal school, which sent young men into the world with all they needed to make respectable citizens, and something of what they wanted to make useful ones. Leaders of men it never tried to make. — Henry Adams

If I do something stupid, which is pretty much the whole time, I hate it. I just hate it. — Nicole Polizzi

Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere? — George Monbiot

Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit. — Nicola Sturgeon

My mother once told me my opinion was the only one that mattered. I've lived by tat advice ever since. — A.P. Heath