Your closest and your most dedicated fans will be your ultimate test. They will test you.
We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.
In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right
Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.
Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
Fear kills more people than death.
We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can't let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way out of it by saying this is bulk collection.