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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

Martha Graham Quotes

Martha Graham was one of the best dancers and choreographers of all time. Today we celebrate his anniversary in our way, sharing Martha Graham Quotes.

‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer’s body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

Learn by practice.

Misery is a communicable disease.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

The body is a sacred garment.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

The body never lies.

The body says what words cannot.

The only sin is mediocrity.

Martha Graham QuotesTheater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

The body is a sacred garment.

There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.

Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination. There is a great deal of outer space, distant from our daily lives, where I feel our imagination wanders sometimes. It will find a planet or it will not find a planet, and that is what a dancer does.

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

Misery is a communicable disease.

In 1980. a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, “Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you to raise money is your respectability.” I wanted to spit. Respectable! Show me any artist who wants to be respectable.

I’m asked so often at ninety-six whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonimity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.

Best Oscar Wilde Quotes #2

« Best of the Oscar Wilde Quotes #1

– “At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.”

– “Beauty is a form of genius – is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.”

– “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

– “Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”

– “Biography lends to death a new terror.”

– “By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”

– “By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.”

– “Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.”

– “Charity creates a multitude of sins.”

– “Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”

– “Children have a natural antipathy to books – handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.”

– “Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”

– “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

– “Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

– “Cynic: a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

– “Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

– “Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.”

– “Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”

– “Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.”

– “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

– “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

– “Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

– “Everyone should keep someone else’s diary.”

– “Everything popular is wrong.”

– “Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.”

– “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

– “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

– “Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

– “Hatred is blind, as well as love.”

– “He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.”

– “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”

– “He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”

– “He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.”

– “He was always late on principle; his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”

– “Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary: when her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.”

– “How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”

– “How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.”

– “How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.”

– “I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”

– “I am not young enough to know everything.”

– “I can believe anything as long as it is incredible.”

– “I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

– “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”

– “I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”

– “I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.”

– “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

– “I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”

– “I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.”

– “I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”

– “I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.”

– “I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”

– “I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.”

– “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”

– “I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”

– “I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.”

– “I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

– “I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying – dead.”

– “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

– “If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.”

– “If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.”

– “If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.”

– “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

– “If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.”

– “If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”

– “Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

– “In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.”

– “In America the President reigns for four years and journalism governs forever and ever.”

Dale Carnegie Quotes

Let us share with you a great collection of Dale Carnegie Quotes:

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that has the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Ever time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never gets far from shore.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence,is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.