David Cooperrider Quotes

All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.

David Cooperrider

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• To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Long
  • Success
  • Leadership

• Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Leadership
  • Leaders

• Leadership means setting a moral tone.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Moral
  • Leadership
  • Tone

• One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • Doing
  • Students
  • Colleagues

• In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Past
  • Season
  • Colleagues

• When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Community
  • Writers
  • Colleagues

• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Power
  • Small

• 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

• 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

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Life
  • Business
  • Leadership

• No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Leadership
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • High
  • Leadership
  • Living

• I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Strong
  • Peace
  • Leadership

• In 1986, Microsoft and Oracle went public within a day of each other, and I recall telling one of my colleagues that the software business will become big. So I started working with software companies in the mid-'80s and never turned back.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Business
  • Day
  • Colleagues

• There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do.

  

  Oliver North
  • Want
  • Leadership
  • Security

• I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Taken
  • Leadership
  • President

• Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Respect
  • Community
  • City

• Historically, corporate aversion to politics has at times held firm even under national leadership that threatens the health of the economy, and with it the well-being of every company.

  

  James B. Stewart
  • Health
  • Leadership

• In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

  

  David Hackworth
  • Time
  • Men

• Because of the power of neuroplasticity, you can, in fact, reframe your world and rewire your brain so that you are more objective. You have the power to see things as they are so that you can respond thoughtfully, deliberately, and effectively to everything you experience.

  

  Elizabeth Thornton
  • World
  • Experience
  • Power

• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Different
  • Country
  • Real

• I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wouldn't have gone off and blown us both into the same crater, or that God himself wouldn't have come along and knocked our heads together in a flash of green sunlight. But it wouldn't have been likely.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • God
  • Friends
  • Don't Believe

• All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.

  

  David Cooperrider
  • Leadership
  • Capacity
  • Colleagues