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• The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Goal, Secret

  David Allen (2008). “Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life”, p.197, Penguin

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• You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Selfish, Independent

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.76, Penguin

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• A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Special, Blind, Prophet

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1785, Random House

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• You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in the thick of this, approaching some partial vision, you will (I swear) find yourself on the receiving end of - of all things - an "idea for a story," and you will, God save you, start thinking about writing some fiction of your own. Then you will understand, in what I fancy might be a blinding flash, that all this passionate thinking is what fiction is about, that all those other fiction writers started as you did, and are laborers in the same vineyard.

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Frustration, Thinking

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• We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Self, Practice

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• The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Plato, Eye, Looks

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.123, Virginia Woolf

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• I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.

  Sarah MacLean

  Eight, Years, Twenties

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• Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

  Ayn Rand

  Change, Future, Animal

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• Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Change, Confidence, Perspective

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• At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.

  Fred Rogers

  Jobs, Heart, Emotional

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• Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

  V. S. Naipaul

  People, World, Limits

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• The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Pleasure, Individual

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• It takes visions and courage to create. It takes faith and courage to prove.

  Owen D. Young

  Courage, Belief, Prove

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• Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.

  Stephen Covey

  Decision, Challenges, Mind

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• But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

  Juliet Marillier

  Dark, Light, Evil

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.464, Macmillan

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• He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Leadership, Insperational

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.86, Aristotle

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  A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence

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  Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Educational, Inspiration

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.

  Henry Cloud

  Real, Responsibility, Leader

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• My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Leadership, Motivation, Character

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• A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

  Ovid

  Leadership, Empowering Others, Born Leaders

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• Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.

  Terry Brooks

  Giving, Firsts, Birth

  Terry Brooks (2009). “The Magic Kingdom of Landover Volume 1: Magic Kingdom For Sale SOLD! - The Black Unicorn - Wizard at Large”, p.222, Del Rey

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• I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Labels, Born Leaders

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• A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

  John J. Pershing

  Leadership, Troops, Poor

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