Leadership must be established from the top down.


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Leadership must be established from the top down.
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failure in leadership ... from the brigade commander on down.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
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If you want to get along, go along.
SAM RAYBURN
When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
SAM RAYBURN
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
SAM RAYBURN
Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
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You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best...
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Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about.....
SAM RAYBURN
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
SAM RAYBURN
Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
SAM RAYBURN
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
SAM RAYBURN
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.
SAM RAYBURN
When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble
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I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but ge...
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Top surface layer rots first to erode the entire value of system. Change it to correct before the de...
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HDTV must be able to work like a toaster. Even top TV brands suffer from complicated products.
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PHIL DOURADO
It takes so much work and effort to rise to the top yet it takes only one mistake to fall down.
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Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals towar...
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Sam and Tanner and Gunde (the captains) have shown great leadership for this team. It is a great gro...
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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
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What must it be like for a suicide coming down from a high ledge? I'm sure it must be a very sane fe...
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Legacy: Supreme leaders determine where generations are going ...
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Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Leading: Superlative leaders are fully equipped to deliver in ...
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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.
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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers not the enrichment of the leaders.
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It's a very shocking and profound change of the EU's position. The EU's proposal seems to represent ...
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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.
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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.
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Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the s...
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for yea...
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And wilt thou still be hammering treachery To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of ...
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I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.
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After having known all the top Chinese statesmen from Mao Zedong onwards,
I am quite confident...
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Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
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I started down but Sam caught my arm and knelt down himself to look.
"For crying out loud," he...
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As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the ...
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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done
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The bodies of the victims have been taken down from the mountain top and transported to Slovakia.
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We are going to take care of some issues. These issues are coming from the people, not from the top ...
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Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establish...
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Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.
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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top
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If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
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You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
SAM KEEN
A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that ...
SAM KEEN
Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wr...
SAM KEAN
I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p...
SAM KEAN
Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you...
SAM KEAN
In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more deman...
SAM KEAN
The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - ren...
SAM KEAN
Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe...
SAM KEAN
Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civili...
SAM KEAN
Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges...
SAM KEAN
Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of mode...
SAM KEAN
Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic subs...
SAM KEAN
One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy a...
SAM KEAN
Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors...
SAM KEAN
The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including w...
SAM KEAN
The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.
SAM KEAN
America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa...
SAM KEAN
The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and...
SAM KEAN
Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impres...
SAM KEAN
Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything...
SAM KEAN
I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolat...
SAM KEAN
Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The ...
SAM KEAN
Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
SAM KEAN
I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they w...
SAM HUNTINGTON