Flawed Leadership Quotes

#1. My current fear is that the message being sent by the level of vitriol surrounding Gillard's flawed leadership (but tell me whose wasn't flawed) is being heard by Australian women and girls loud and clear. And the message is: 'Don't aspire to high office,sweetheart, because we'll flay you alive.'

Jane Caro

#2. Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.

Julian Barnes

#3. VUCA World - an environment of nonstop volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

Chris Ertel

#4. Obviously over the years, it's been America, it's been Europe. It's all been very kind of divided between those two continents. It's nice to kind of see that Asia is starting - and especially China - starting to get recognized in this sport, too.

Kim Clijsters

#5. She lived in fear of ifonic endings.

Anne Lamott

#6. Are you exciting to be with ... or are you boring like the rest of them?

Richard Finney

#7. No matter how fast light travels, light will always find darkness, waiting.

A. Spencer

#8. It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics are making today in reverse. They think you can love heretics by loving heresies.

Peter Kreeft

#9. men-who-were-friends and the Urgals-who-were-friends and the horses-she-must-not-eat

Christopher Paolini

#10. I like what's going on in Finland, with the rebirth of Beherit. I also like a band called Oranssi Pazuzu and a band called Spiderpact. There's a great scene there where they don't really care what's going on elsewhere and create music in their own vacuum.

Mat McNerney

#11. Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#12. She said that life was too precious to cast away; that even the foulest and meanest expression of life was precious, full of grandeur and inestimable beauty, although we are often too blind to recognize it.

Christi Phillips

#13. The common soldiers did not blame him for his excessive grief. They knew him. They knew his flaws. Indeed, I think they loved him all the more because he was flawed, as they were, and did not hide his passionate, blemished nature.

Geraldine Brooks