Shrewd Leadership Quotes

#1. We could build entire cities out of the stories of loneliness.

Hannah Brencher

#2. If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?

Tertullian

#3. We watched these auditions and could only pick one. Sometimes we would add new characters 'cause we wanted to use another actress. There were so many people who were just waiting for something like this.

Jenji Kohan

#4. There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are similarly intertwined in Catalonia and Spain, in Ukraine and Russia.

Michael Ignatieff

#5. No love is Love that subjugates the Lover.
No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood.
No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breed
more women and men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh.

Mikhail Naimy

#6. And I also knew I needed to get off her before I engaged in total dumbassery.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. Remember, you can make a difference.

John Walsh

#8. Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Cyril Connolly

#9. A lot of these women had to overcome cultural conditioning against hurting other people, or even confronting anyone physically.

Carrie Vaughn

#10. I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

Maggie Nelson

#11. It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#12. As a rule Uncle Giles took not the slightest interest in anyone or anything except himself and his own affairs - indeed was by this time all but incapable of absorbing even the smallest particle of information about others, unless such information had some immediate bearing on his own case.

Anthony Powell

#13. The best leaders are well-rounded, able to draw on whatever skills suits the particular situation at hand. They are determined, insightful, shrewd, and, most important, able to command the attention of the people around them.

Bob Rae

#14. Williams had a very shrewd sense of how much heat the organism could take at any given time;

David Halberstam