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Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Warren G. Bennis QuotesPeople who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

There is a profound difference between information and meaning. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

David Attenborough Quotes

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. – David Attenborough Quotes

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. – David Attenborough Quotes

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. – David Attenborough Quotes

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. – David Attenborough Quotes

Crying wolf is a real danger. – David Attenborough Quotes

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds. – David Attenborough Quotes

I don’t approve of sunbathing, and it’s bad for you. – David Attenborough Quotes

I don’t run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving. – David Attenborough Quotes

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. – David Attenborough Quotes

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals. – David Attenborough Quotes

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. – David Attenborough Quotes

It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it. – David Attenborough Quotes

It’s a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. – David Attenborough Quotes

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. – David Attenborough Quotes

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. – David Attenborough Quotes

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. – David Attenborough Quotes

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant. – David Attenborough Quotes

Sir David Attenborough QuotesThe fundamental issue is the moral issue. – David Attenborough Quotes

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there’s a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. – David Attenborough Quotes

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? – David Attenborough Quotes

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what’s it all about. – David Attenborough Quotes

Well, I’m having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. – David Attenborough Quotes

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That’s what natural history programmes should be for. – David Attenborough Quotes

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you’re talking about. – David Attenborough Quotes

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn ’til dusk, unless it’s a pigeon, which isn’t really wild, which might come and settle near them. – David Attenborough Quotes

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival. – David Attenborough Quotes

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. – David Attenborough Quotes

I’m absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don’t care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that’s what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time. – David Attenborough Quotes

I’m against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. – David Attenborough Quotes

I’m not in politics. – David Attenborough Quotes

I’ve been to Nepal, but I’d like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don’t think there’s anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit. – David Attenborough Quotes

If I can bicycle, I bicycle. – David Attenborough Quotes

In the old days… it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn’t have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn’t use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. – David Attenborough Quotes

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for – the whole thing – rather than just one or two stars. – David Attenborough Quotes