Plenary Guardian Quotes & Sayings

doomed to be the recipient of confidences... — Joseph Conrad

I've come to realize we're all two different people. Our younger, innocent self that's inevitably mangled along the highway of life, and our tougher adult personal that evolves from the wreckage. — Phil Stern

Leaders dramatically influence the culture of their organizations through their own work habits. Being a leader does not mean one has 'made it' and is now exempt from hard work. Rather, leaders should set the pace for others. Few things discourage employees and volunteers any more than lazy leaders. Leaders should not ask their people to undertake tasks they are unwilling to perform themselves. — Henry T. Blackaby

Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs. — Randy Pausch

I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes. — Bobby Seale

Breakthrough the glass ceiling of limitation that has been placed over your life, be the star of your own team and Champion yourself to victory! — Dwaun S. Cox

I tell you, if you feel strange,
strange things will happen to you:
Fallen peacocks on library shelves — Rita Dove

Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want. — Ethan Hawke

All complex systems are hierarchical in nature, but also exhibit other patterns of regularity. — Anonymous

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves. — P.D. James

I don't think leadership demands 'yes' or 'no' answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry. — Rand Paul