Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
Michel de Montaigne
Quotes
No dictatorship can tolerate jazz. It’s the first sign of a return to freedom.
Dave Brubeck
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
Pauline R. Kezer
People blame their plight on the government and its leaders, or to management and its leaders. They may be correct. But will a change in leadership assure better living? What if the new leaders are no better? How could they be? By what method could new leaders bring improvement in living? Will best efforts bring improvement? Best efforts and hard work, not guided by new knowledge, they only dig deeper the pit that we are in.
W. Edwards Deming
Learn to appreciate as an artist things as simple as the day; sleep; walking and running–a room–an ordinary phrase; to read instinct; to drink, to gaze at oneself or speak to oneself–to see afresh, in other words, what has been seen so often–but in its place.
Paul Valéry
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
Paul Valéry
Ithaca does not exist; only the voyage to Ithaca.
Nikos Kazanzakis
Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they’ve never seen before, something that does not yet exist.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Leaders must pick causes they won’t abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
Fernando Flores