It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labour dilligently for the salvation of the masses.
– Dag Hammarskjold
Category: Quotes
Lots and lots of great quotes
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If you have come to help me, I don’t need your help. But if you have come because your liberation is tied to mine, come let us work together.
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When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college – that my job was to teach people how to draw.
She stared back at me, increduolous, and said, “You mean they forget?”
– Howard Ikemoto, quoted in Art And Fear
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Christian Theism is the belief that God is a personal, transcendent Creator of the universe–and of us. This world view showed up on a T-shirt I saw recently:
There are two things in life you can be sure of.
1. There is a God.
2. You are not Him.– From this article: Answering the Big Questions of Life by Sue Bohlin
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We live in a world where attraction is ubiquitous. Organization wants to happen. People want their lives to mean something. We seek one another to develop new capacities. With all these wonderful and innate desires calling us to organize, we can stop worrying about designing perfect structure or rules. We need to become intrigued by how we create a clear and coherent identity, a self that we can organize around.
– Margaret Wheatley in A Simpler Way
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
– George Bernard Shaw
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
– George Bernard Shaw
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If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
– Ray Bradbury
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The Paradoxes of Being a Servant-Leader
I had the pleasure of meeting Stephen Meng at the Kaospilots chaordic conference, and he mailed out this quote, which illustrates the paradox of being a servant leader, who must be:
Strong enough to be weak
Successful enough to fail
Busy enough to make time
Wise enough to say “I don’t know”
Serious enough to laugh
Rich enough to be poor
Right enough to say “I’m wrong”
Compassionate enough to discipline
Mature enough to be childlike
Important enough to be last
Planned enough to be spontaneous
Controlled enough to be flexible
Free enough to endure captivity
Knowledgeable enough to ask questions
Loving enough to be angry
Great enough to be anonymous
Responsible enough to play
Assured enough to be rejected
Victdorious enough to lose
Industrious enough to relax
Leading enough to serve– Brewer, as cited by Hansel, 1987
