Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say. Andy Stanley
Standards are like toothbrushes, everybody agrees you should have one, but no one wants to use yours. Joe Croser
L'arbre est devant la fenêtre du salon. Je l'interroge chaque matin: Quoi de neuf aujourd'hui? La réponse vient sans tarder, donnée par des centaines de feuilles: Tout. Christian Bobin
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. Howard Mumford Jones
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. Howard Mumford Jones
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell
In the New Earth we are creating, we need lusty compassion and ecstatic duty, ingenious love and insurrectionary beauty. We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks. Rob Brezsny
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. Douglas MacArthur
The time it takes to make a decision increases as the number of alternatives increases. William Edmund Hick
Science arose from poetry... When times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. Johan Goethe
Modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a free man but an automaton. Erich Fromm
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born, when we die. Erich Fromm
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. Jessamyn West
