Bias Leadership Quotes

#1. He was a regular Yankee from New England. The Yankees are noted for making the most cruel overseers.

William Wells Brown

#2. Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#3. It must be taken as given that a man who happens to be the world's most powerful, most terrible, most deadly sorceror, must have a woman at his side. But it does not follow, my children, that a woman of similar proportions requires a man at hers.

Steven Erikson

#4. Experiment participants asked to pick which politician looked more confident in a photograph picked the winner of the race two thirds of the time. This phenomenon held up even when they only glimpsed the photographs for a 10th of a second.

Jonathan Haidt

#5. The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Pope Paul VI

#6. Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

Andy Hargreaves

#7. This is the fourth movie that I've done with this set of director-writers and I've learned to trust them at this point, because actually I started on Lego before they did.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#8. Thus Gonzo, incendiarist and leader of men.

Nick Harkaway

#9. This had to be Hell.Well, my
Hell, and funnily enough, my Hell was in a church, surrounded by people I - either do
or did - love.

Elizabeth Morgan

#10. I was a drinker, so I went through the scotches. Before single malts hit, there were really cheap scotches, because nobody was paying attention to them. Then by the time they started jacking those prices up, I moved on to vodka.

Lewis Black

#11. For without a measure of arrogance, how can one attempt the impossible?

Renee Ahdieh

#12. The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their "gut" when they should be more rational.

Paul Gibbons

#13. When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

Richard Whately

#14. Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Fareed Zakaria

#15. I was in my peak physical condition when I was about like, uh ... one. Oh God, I looked good, young and fresh! You wouldn't know me now if you'd seen me when I was one, you know? I even looked good for my age. People would come up to me and go, what are you, zero? And I'd go, no, I'm one over here!

Norm MacDonald

#16. Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

Olivier Theyskens