Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo. John P. Kotter contentmentfeltfocus Change image and share on social
Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective. Travis Bradberry articulatedifficulteffective share on social
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. Robert Benchley adaptauthoreasily Change image and share on social
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. A. E. Housman bluntdiscriminationdull Change image and share on social
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. Honore de Balzac affairchampagneend Change image and share on social
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect. Ellen Key dutyelectgenius Change image and share on social
Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead. Helen Hunt Jackson deaddiedrop Change image and share on social
Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own. Alan Cohen claimdivinityemulate Change image and share on social
