Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.
Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them.
Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.
The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.
A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.
Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
The question is always how you get the number of troops needed. They do not have to be coalition forces. We also have to expand the training program for the Afghan National Army and the national police, in particular. and Defense Secretary Robert Gates has already announced support for a significant increase in the Afghan army.
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.
Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.
There are some people, who don’t wait.