Meine Verantwortung bezieht sich also immer auf die mir gegebenen Möglichkeiten und Handlungsspielräume.

Die meisten Führungskräfte werden sich in ihrem ganzen Leben nicht bewusst, das Sie nur eine Person zu führen haben, nämlich sich selbst.

Eine Führungskraft sein bedeutet, in 70 Prozent der Zeit auf Situationen reagieren zu müssen, die man sich nicht ausgesucht hat.

Denn was die andere Person falsch gemacht hat, ist offensichtlich. Das Versagenspotential ihrer „Helfer“ aber versteckt sich hinter einer Fassade scheinbarer Frömmigkeit und Selbstsicherheit. (Seite 46)

Das Wort Nachfolge verdeutlicht das: unser Tun folgt immer dem nach, was Gott zuvor für uns getan hat und tut! ( Seite 61 )

Das erinnert uns daran, das wir das Gute nie für uns selbst haben und sein können. ( S. 64 )

Zu wissen, was ich dort beitragen kann, und es dann von Herzen zu tun, ist deshalb ein wesentlicher Aspekt der Selbstführung. ( S. 64 )

For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.

We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage half shut afterwards.

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm from.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

There is an elementary level of trust that is necessary for community. You have to be able to trust that your neighbors aren't going to look into your mailbox.

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

They can be a handful to drive it's like driving a piece of chain down a race track.

Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.

Historically, Congress hasn't paid much attention to the confines the Constitution establishes.

I guess being French, I love Hollywood. I love Hollywood movies. Joseph Mankiewicz's 'All About Eve.' 'Mildred Pierce.'

When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.

Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.

The longer you hold a dollar, the longer you hold money, the more valuable it becomes over time. So the younger you are, the more ability you have to hold money longer term.

While there is a lower class I am in it while there is a criminal element I am of it and while there is a soul in prison I am not free.

My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it.