Just Thinking...

Photo Credit: Richard Chicoine iCopyright 2009

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

- John F Kennedy, for a speech never delivered

on the day of his assassination

"One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others."

- Edward L. Flom

"Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves."

- Stephen Covey, the 8th Habit

Gertrude Stein offers some sobering advice:

“There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer.

There never has been an answer.

There’s the answer!”

The media once asked Pope John XXIII how many people worked at the Vatican. “About half of them…” he said.

“I am not retreating. I am advancing in a different direction.”
- Gen. Douglas MacArthur

“I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, ‘Got any shoes you’re not using?’”
- Steven Wright

“Conscious noticing of what we’re experiencing, once we get back the hang of it, can be a common denominator, a language of connectedness between social, environmental, and economic concerns… Using the things we know or sense about places but seldom put into words, we can bring all our minds to bear on the problems of how our communities, regions, and landscapes should change.” - Tony Hiss, from www.pps.org

It is easy to sit up and take notice,

What is difficult is getting up and taking action. ~~Honoré de Balzac

"People are elected not to power, but to serve." - Ian McCormack

Anonymous said...
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts.

With our thoughts we make the world.

Speak or act with a pure mind,and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakeable.

How can a troubled mind understand the way?

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as muchas your own thoughts unguarded.

But once mastered,no one can help you as much, not even your father or your mother.

Buddha (from the Dhammapada, translated by Thomas Byron)