Sergiovanni Leadership Quotes & Sayings

...We are truly human when we live for a purpose far above ourselves; but most people prefer to identify with an entity for the sake of belonging; thereby subjecting themselves to the spirit of collective selfishness that is only found in groups... — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one. — Marianne Williamson

Most individuals on earth are not drawn to the higher light at this time. That doesn't make you superior to anyone else. If you are in the eighth grade you're not better than someone who is in the fourth grade. — Frederick Lenz

Old friends are like old clothes: they fit the best. — Ken Liu

Thomas Jefferson had rather serious concerns about the fate of the democratic experiment.28 He feared the rise of a new form of absolutism that was more ominous than the British rule overthrown in the American Revolution. He distinguished in his later years between what he called "aristocrats and democrats."29 And then he went on to say, "I hope we shall ... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country."30 He also wrote, "I sincerely believe ... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."31 That's the kind of quote from a Founding Father you don't see too much. — Noam Chomsky

It is not enough to want to get rid of one's sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins. — C.S. Lewis

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too. — A. J. Cook

(We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage the heart. — Thomas J. Sergiovanni

I don't think I was born to be in the club. Just to throw that out there. — Taylor Swift

Look, anything you do, if it isn't hard, it isn't doing anything for you. So you're better off not doing it. Use your time somewhere else. — Jeff Hobbs

Time is that which is manufactured by clocks. — Hermann Bondi

Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy. — Agatha Christie

The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after? — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I was wondering why I wasn't getting the right answers. It was then I realized that I wasn't asking the right people. — Mansi Soni

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object. — Richard Whately