It only takes one person to make a change. . . Let it begin with you.
The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.
Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.
The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.
Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.
My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten by the business in those days, never a fan type - just a basic kid watching TV. It wasn't like I was an insider. I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's been a blessing and a downfall. But it's made my own work the initiation.
Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed
When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.