I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people… to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. – Kofi Annan
Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate youre ready to play as tough as youre able to, youd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when youre not giving it all youve got. – Larry Bird
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. – Theodore Roosevelt
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children theyre beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends. – Emily Mortimer
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. – Bertrand Russell