(378 quotes found)
“Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.”
Warren G. Bennis
“The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.”
Chris Van Allsburg
“I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.”
Bill Gates
“I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.”
Corazon Aquino
“We think Aetna's results will be more than enough to sustain the stock's recent strength.”
Carl McDonald
“When you're looking at sustainable development there's no 'one size fits all' solution. It depends how rural, how urban, how traditional, how literate, there are so many factors that come into it. Sustainable development is an ecosystem problem.”
Clive Smith
“The larger the pie, the greater number of possible slices big enough to sustain the lives of individual species.”
Edward O. Wilson
“The Saddam regime was sustained by illegal smuggling that amounted to some $11 billion. The U.N. Security Council , including the U.S. and Britain, did very little to stop that.”
Carne Ross
“I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness”
Henry De Montherlant
“What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
Henry David Thoreau
