I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.
Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.
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Kiera Cass
Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.
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Willa Cather
Learning the truth has become my life's love.
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Dan Brown
I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.
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Steve Maraboli
It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.
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Jim Hinckley
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These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.
We'd do well to remember that at the end of the day, the law doesn't defend us; we defend the law. And when it becomes contrary to our morals, we have both the right and the responsibility to rebalance it toward just ends.
I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on the radio, 'the plane's hitting, ' and I remember thinking my grandfather, who worked for the FBI at the time, was in the Pentagon when...
Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.
Study after study has show that human behavior changes when we know we’re being watched. Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively *are* less free.
