Ed Burns Quotes
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.
Theres a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday of my life.
The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.
In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
My natural color is dark blond, but right now I like being a brunette. I did a movie last summer and they dyed my hair platinum - I hated it.
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it
Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.
At night if I'm in a hurry, I'll just put on a lot of mascara and black pencil all the way around the inner rim. It's a totally sexy eye in a minute and a half.
If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.
The world is changing. We all know this. And as that world changes, if you don't transform your company, you're stuck.
If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral.
Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.
I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's an active disengagement.
I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
Oh my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune.
Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed.
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.
I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old.
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."
My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.
I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
