Max Depree Quotes

#1. In the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#2. I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

Kurt Cobain

#3. Notice I did not say what people can do
what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.

Max DePree

#4. We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

Max DePree

#5. We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.

Max DePree

#6. Sometimes we think we're a little too gifted to show up, yo uknow. But none of us truly is ... By avoiding risk we really risk what's most important in life
reaching toward growth, our potential, and a true contribution to a common good.

Max DePree

#7. I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

Caspar Weinberger

#8. Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

Max DePree

#9. I don't come with the wheelchair. The wheelchair comes with me.

Max DePree

#10. A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Salman Rushdie

#11. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you.

Max DePree

#12. Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. The art of healing, the art of ecstasy, the art of God-consciousness has millions of names in mystic terms. It has to do with rhythm and reality. When the body is in rhythm, there is ease. When the body, or any part of the body goes out of rhythm, there is dis-ease.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#14. If we cannot all FEEL alike, we can all FEED alike on the Bread Life.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. (Productive Workers + Innovative Products = Industry Leadership, no?)

Max DePree

#16. Systematic errors are known as biases, and they recur predictably in particular circumstances.

Daniel Kahneman

#17. Channeled correctly and integrated properly, our diversity can be our greatest strength.

Max DePree

#18. The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

James Agee

#19. In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.

Max DePree

#20. I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#21. Empathy Is An Endangered Instinct

Dean Cavanagh

#22. Only a group of people who share a body of knowledge and continually learn together can stay vital and viable.

Max DePree

#23. We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

Max DePree

#24. It is through our imperfections that our true beauty shines through.

Cheryl L. Ilov