Leadership Quotes - Page 85

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else; a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure them that the struggles are worthwhile. Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.

Example is leadership.

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.

We cannot all be masters.

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.

Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.