I think that notion of leadership is bankrupt.

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.

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind.

We may not be able to control life’s circumstances, but we always have a choice about how we use our minds to respond to them.

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

It's so interesting that the romantic side of my life comes from my father, who I really didn't even know that well.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

I want to live a full life - period.

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.