Stay diagnostic even as you take action.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.

Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

I'm not a big pet fan. I remember the school used to have a hamster, and you used to take it home for a week at a time. I did that. I probably got bored of it within a day.

When you help someone up a hill, you find yourself closer to the top.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

The news is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective throats of America.

Obviously Im a lawyer; I like to have cases.

...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once.

I learned that the Holy Water better be fresh, that I need practice throwing the spheres, and that someone has to watch my back so asshats don't steal my demons.

But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.

Hey G-Town Gal: turn your underwear inside out! Then u only have to do laundry every 2 weeks—saves on detergent & trips to Laundromat!

What happens, matters. Maybe only to us but it matters.