Leadership Development Program Quotes

#1. I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

Wendy Kopp

#2. I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then periods of sort of weakening central authority. They undoubtedly face tremendous challenges.

Henry A. Kissinger

#3. Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama ... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

Andrea Anders

#4. The size of an investor's brain is less important than his ability to detach the brain from the emotions.

Robert G. Hagstrom

#5. As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

Epicurus

#6. Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

H.L. Mencken

#7. This is called 'the Mysterious Agreement.

Lao-Tzu

#8. You don't think crush velvet is a good fabric for a suit, do you?

Keith Thomas Walker

#9. Anything that works to transport more glucose into the fat cells - insulin, for example, or rising blood sugar - will lead to the conversion of more fatty acids into triglycerides, and the storage of more calories as fat.

Gary Taubes

#10. God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.

Michel Onfray

#11. How much of your time, at your "hourly rate," is wasted each year because you're cleaning up after your employees and fixing issues they've created or haven't resolved themselves?

Liz Weber

#12. If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away.

Sun Tzu

#13. The beauty myth is not about women at all. It is about men's institutions and institutional power.

Naomi Wolf

#14. Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal.

David Blankenhorn

#15. I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world.

John Bonham

#16. Are you threatening to kidnap me?"
"If you want to look at it that way," Jace said, "yes.

Cassandra Clare