Attention is the currency of leadership.

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.

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.

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.

Everybody hates lies even the liars themselves

Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.

A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart. Nay, even idolatry is ample evidence of this fact.

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.

I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.

I just don't want to be famous. I feel like there's a lot of sacrifice in that I'm not really willing to make.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.