“The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.”
Warren G. Bennis
“In a very few cases the majority has referred to foreign decisions in the same way it might refer to a treatise or an academic article. Our sovereignty is not at risk.”
Cass Sunstein
“What the president was referring to was the sense that, after the storm had initially passed, that there was a sense that that worst-case scenario had not happened. Some have taken it out of context to suggest he was referring to any predictions before the hurricane hit.”
Scott McClellan
“You made reference to the president ...”
Colin Powell
“If I had wanted I wouldn't have referred them [the accused villagers] to the revolutionary court. I did refer them to the revolutionary court. And they were tried according to the law.”
Saddam Hussein
“Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.”
Yogi Berra
“The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough”
Denise Shekerjian
