Three things a leader or manager should be thinking: What's happening? What's not happening? and What can I do to influence the outcome?

The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.

Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.

The words a leader speaks are important, of course. But how they're delivered can make all the difference, especially in tough times.

Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.

People who believe in themselves and in a cause greater than themselves can achieve great things-as long as they have a well-intentioned leader to point them in the right direction.

Solution = Conflict + Collaboration

Communication comes with practice. As a leader you must speak the truth; listen for understanding; and learn from what you hear and do not hear.

Leadership is the behavior each of us exerts when we take responsibility for our actions and their consequences.

Focusing on one's own purpose is a matter of considering what you want to do, why you want to do it, and how you will do it. Easy questions, but they do provide deep thought.

Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.

Here bloom red roses, dewy wet, And beds of fragrant mignonette.

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!

I have work to do as a human being.

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.