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Divorced from ethics leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

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James MacGregor Burns
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Category: Leadership

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
  • 2. A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age I don't have the patience to learn.
  • 3. Temper never mellows with age and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's amazing how age after age in country after country and in all languages Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
  • 2. Children are amazing and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale and of course I teach at Columbia NYU and that's nice and I love students but the most fun of all are the real little ones the young ones.
  • 3. Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere… You don't have to dress up for instance and you can't hear them boo you right away.

3 Anger

  • 1. You can survive with anger but you can't live with it forever.
  • 2. I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger rage fear sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
  • 3. When anger rushes unrestrained to action like a hot steed it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
  • 2. A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love trust partnership tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
  • 3. Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

5 Architecture

  • 1. In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
  • 2. No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
  • 3. I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
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