Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

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• Education is the mother of leadership.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Mother
  • Education
  • Leadership

• Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Experience
  • Want

• On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Book
  • Learn
  • Teach

• If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Relationship
  • Dance
  • Learn

• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Dad
  • Hand
  • Air

• One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Power
  • Trust

• Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Leadership
  • Blessed
  • Dreams

• I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Me
  • Positive
  • Motivated

• In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Political
  • Leadership
  • Presidential

• Everything has positive and negative consequences.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Positive
  • Negative

• I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Path
  • Model

• People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • People
  • You
  • Learn

• My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Learn
  • See
  • Pleasures

• I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Why
  • Bad

• I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • You
  • Learn
  • Gun

• Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Leadership

• Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Meditation
  • Negative

• When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Decision
  • Learn

• More often than not, at the end of the day (or a month, or a year), you realize that your initial idea was wrong, and you have to try something else. These are the moments of frustration and despair. You feel that you have wasted an enormous amount of time, with nothing to show for it. This is hard to stomach. But you can never give up. You go back to the drawing board, you analyze more data, you learn from your previous mistakes, you try to come up with a better idea. And every once in a while, suddenly, your idea starts to work. It's as if you had spent a fruitless day surfing, when you finally catch a wave: you try to hold on to it and ride it for as long as possible. At moments like this, you have to free your imagination and let the wave take you as far as it can. Even if the idea sounds totally crazy at first.

  

  Edward Frenkel
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Learn

• Three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in its correctness.

  

  Ninian Stephen
  • Leadership
  • Belief
  • Mastery

• Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Change

• I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Violence
  • Self
  • Intelligence

• You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

  

  Norman Schwarzkopf
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