Warren G. Bennis Quotes
All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.
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You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
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When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.
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'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.
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If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.
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Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts.
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With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
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The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
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Our dependence on the pollutants of this Earth have always, and will continue to have, far-reaching consequences to our eco-systems, bio systems, geosystems and our race's natural evolution.
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My mother is chairman of a bank called the Indo-Zambia Bank. It's a joint venture between Zambia and India. My father runs Integrity Foundation, an anticorruption organization.
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Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
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The terrorists are busy in and outside the country in such activities which are a danger to the unity and integrity of the country.
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We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
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I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.
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When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
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It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.
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All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.
