Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.
Well, look who I ran into," crowed Coincidence. "Please," flirted Fate, "this was meant to be.
It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.
Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.
When I was Younger, I wanted to be something. Now, I just want to be younger.
If you don't stick to your plan enough, and you're too seduced by whimsical notions and new ideas, you can kind of lose your train of thought and end up with something that doesn't have a solid through-line.
If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.
The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.
I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought. . . in promoting an evolution doctrine as regards the mechanical formation of the solar system. . . but his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them. . . . Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.