Esther Peterson (Esther Eggertsen Peterson) Quotes

A leader moves ahead but not so fast that the others can't keep up.

Esther Peterson

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• I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Waiting

• I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Good
  • Past

• Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Energy
  • Growth

• Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Woman
  • inspirational
  • Leader

• As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Easy

• If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Chance
  • Same
  • Leader

• I don't run on the treadmill, because there's no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Moving
  • Soccer
  • Run

• There are all sorts of cries that the leaders of the Green Movement should submit themselves to the supreme leader, but that won't take place. Both sides have to be prepared for a serious negotiation.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Serious
  • Green
  • Leader

• I am so proud to have the endorsement of a distinguished leader like Glenn Poshard.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Proud
  • Leader
  • Endorsement

• The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Moving
  • Challenge
  • Moving Forward

• That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Job
  • Political
  • Leader

• On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Real
  • Free

• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Enemy

• Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Time
  • Me
  • Leader

• I suppose popularity is measured by ratings. If a broadcaster is known as the leader because of ratings, then that's where people most want to be seen and heard, so there's no question that there's an advantage.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Done
  • Attention
  • Leader

• 'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Family
  • Home
  • Friends

• My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Father
  • Career
  • Science

• A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Stories
  • Leader
  • Information

• No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Relationship
  • Matter
  • Misery

• I discover that hardly a week passes that some one does not start a new cult, or revive an old one; if I had a hundred life-times I could not know all the creeds and ceremonies, the services and rituals, the litanies and liturgies, the hymns, anthems and offertories of Bootstrap-lifting.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Life
  • Lifting

• A leader moves ahead but not so fast that the others can't keep up.

  

  Esther Peterson
  • Moving
  • Leader