Professionalizing Leadership Quotes & Sayings

My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are a paramount example of the span of memory of the young generation - they are able to remember everything that happened in their life but not before. — Umberto Eco

Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising of a telephone box. It is not helpful for understanding what hit New York on September 11. Those people were not mindless and they were certainly not cowards. On the contrary, they had sufficiently effective minds braced with an insane courage, and it would pay us mightily to understand where that courage came from. It came from religion ... — Richard Dawkins

You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself. — Edna Ferber

A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting. — Marco Brambilla

It is only when we admit our ignorance that we can hope to overcome it. — Chris Matakas

I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. It's kind of like a rock ballad. There's a lot of guitars and drums in it. — Ashley Tisdale

Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices. And I just couldn't do it right now. It hurt too much when it fell apart. — Kim Harrison

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free. — Henry David Thoreau

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close. — Thomas Moore