Melanne Verveer Quotes
For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.
Melanne Verveer
Quotes to Explore
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Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
Rahm Emanuel
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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Harold S. Geneen
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Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Irving Layton
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Ray Lewis, I've grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the game, his love for the game, his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis, from leadership qualities, all that.
Manti Te'o
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History has placed a tremendous responsibility on the shoulders of this country's leadership, namely the responsibility of moving our country away from the current course of conflict and confrontation... The hope of millions of South Africans is fixed on us. The future of southern Africa depends on us. We dare not waver or fail.
F. W. de Klerk
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If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
Mary Douglas
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Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.
Alan Mulally
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Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if they don't have a 4.0 GPA, score in the 99th percentile on admissions tests, and demonstrate leadership in sports and participate in clubs, they won't get into college anywhere. Even highly credentialed professionals get caught up in this.
Elizabeth Thornton
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I don't think sometimes people in positions of leadership in the church really engage gay and lesbian people and talk to them and get to know about their lives.
Blase J. Cupich
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As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
Mark McKinnon
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Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.
David Cameron
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Once you finish the script, it's no longer yours; it's the other people making it, which sometimes can be hard.
Katie Dippold
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.
Alan Valentine
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Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
Sam Hunt
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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
Bradford Cox
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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
Nicolas Bouvier
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For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.
Melanne Verveer
