INTENTIONS + ACTION = WILL

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most.

Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.

There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by the crowd.

A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away.

Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.

INTENTIONS - ACTION = SQUAT

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

I'd like to take a long walk, to the edge of something.

God will often give you more than you can handle so you can learn to depend on Him rather than on yourself.

Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

I would love to eat a really great burger, but it doesn't exist in our part of the world.

Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.