"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."

Conrad, Joseph on imagination   

"You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?"

Conrad, Joseph on integrity   

"It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome."

Conrad, Joseph on life
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"Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad."

Conrad, Joseph on loneliness
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"Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work."

Conrad, Joseph on management   

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"What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace."

Conrad, Joseph on peace
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"He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense."

Conrad, Joseph on persuasion
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"An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation."

Conrad, Joseph on art   

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"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line."

Conrad, Joseph on art   

"The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free."

Conrad, Joseph on evolution   

"Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends."

Conrad, Joseph on sincerity   

"They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience."

Conrad, Joseph on betrayal
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"It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine."

Conrad, Joseph on wine   

"A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing."

Conrad, Joseph on work   

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"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it."

Conrad, Joseph on courage
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"I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat."

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"The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"Popularity is not leadership."

Marcinko, Richard on leadership
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"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

Augustine, St. on leadership
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"If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you."

Azai, Rabbi Ben on leadership
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"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."

Barker, Joel A. on leadership
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"The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive."

Batten, Joe on leadership
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"Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

Bible on leadership
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"Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players."

Bird, Larry on leadership   

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on leadership
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"When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on leadership
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"An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on leadership
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"Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on leadership
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"There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two."

Brecht, Bertolt on leadership
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"I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar."

Churchill, Winston on leadership
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"If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?"

Confucius on leadership
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"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."

Crook, James on leadership
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"Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain."

Depree, Max on leadership
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"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."

Diderot, Denis on leadership   

"No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world."

Disraeli, Benjamin on leadership   

"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"

Disraeli, Benjamin on leadership
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"The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd."

Donnell, R. S. on leadership
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"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

Drucker, Peter F. on leadership
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