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.

Ambition never comes to an end.

Yoshida Kenko

Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.

Source Unknown

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

Arsene Wenger

Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

Jean Baudrillard

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

Terry Pratchett

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ()A good novel editor is invisible.

Terri Windling

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato

Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.'

Dylan McDermott

Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull

Michael Josephson