George W. Bush Quotes

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

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• As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Style
  • Best
  • Woman

• 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

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

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Leadership
  • Leaders

• I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• 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

• My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Listening

• The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Best

• I grew up with horrible skin. I had cystic acne ever since I can remember. I ended up finally listening to those people who say you are what you eat.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Effort

• 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
  • Community
  • Respect
  • City

• As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Great
  • Long
  • Business

• Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Leadership
  • Learned
  • Really

• If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • You
  • Team
  • Leadership

• It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Small
  • Wisdom
  • Leadership

• Like red meat thrown before the Atkins crowd in the Republican Party, the initiative would teach problem solving, negotiating, and listening skills, which might then trickle up to the Bush Administration.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Up
  • Party
  • Listening

• Institutions are strong; it turns out you don't need a lot of sensible or even sane leadership in the White House.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • House
  • Strong
  • Leadership

• When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
  • Long
  • War

• Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Why
  • Universe
  • Enemy

• In terms of CBS, I think that the consistency for them, it feels like they have a really clear sense of who they are and what they want, and they're able to keep delivering very consistently on their brand, which is really terrific, and I think NBC has taken some really smart and interesting routes in the things that they've done.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Done
  • Interesting
  • Taken

• To those who say Britain cannot afford to invest in infrastructure, I say we cannot afford not to invest in our future.

  

  Philip Hammond
  • Future

• Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

  

  George W. Bush
  • Listening
  • Leadership
  • Duty