And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.

Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

Do all the things NOW that you were waiting to do until AFTER your SoulMate arrived!

Of course fortune has its part in human affairs but conduct is really much more important.

Most people are taught from an early age on, to conceive of themselves as losers. They are taught that there are a very special few who are eminently successful in life.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.

Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up.

The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.