Words of Wisdom

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Words of Wisdom
Accompanied by the music of Jazz Legend,Billy
Taylor, VSU Class of 1942, performing Moanin
Created byShawn BenjaminFor the 2006 Virginia
Student Services Conference _at_ Wintergreen
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Where there is no vision, the people perish.

• Proverbs 2918
• one of the books of the Ketuvim of the Tanaka /
• Writings of the Old Testament

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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
but a molder of consensus.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.American activist, the
  most famous leader of the American civil rights
  movement.

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Management is doing things right leadership is
doing the right things.

• Peter F. Drucker
• The father of modern corporate management

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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally
transform one million realities.

• Maya Angelou
• American Poet, Memoirist, Actress, and Civil
  Rights Movement figure.

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them
what to do and let them surprise you with their
results.

• George S. Patton
• U.S. Army General in World War II

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to
do something you want done because he wants to do
it.

• Dwight Eisenhower
• 34th President of the United States

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People ask the difference between a leader and a
boss. . . The leader works in the open, and the
boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss
drives.

• Theodore Roosevelt
• 26th President of the United States

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Whoever is careless with the truth in small
matters cannot be trusted with the important
matters.

• Albert Einstein
• German-born, American Physicist

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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they
dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting
hungry.

• Winston Churchill
• Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during WWII

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A leader is best when people barely know he
exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim
him, worse when they despise him. But of a good
leader who talks little when his work is done,
his aim fulfilled, they will say We did it
ourselves.

• Lao Tse
• Founder of the Taoism

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We must become the change we want to see.

• Mahatma Gandhi
• Pioneer of Satyagraha- resistance through mass
  civil disobedience strongly founded upon ahimsa
  (non-violence).

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The very essence of leadership is that you have
to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain
trumpet.

• Theodore M. Hesburgh
• a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and
  President Emeritus of the University of Notre
  Dame

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People cannot be managed. Inventories can be
managed, but people must be led.

• H. Ross PerotBillionaire American businessman
  from Texas

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Leadership should be born out of the
understanding of the needs of those who would be
affected by it.

• Marian Anderson
• American Vocalist

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The task of the leader is to get his people from
where they are to where they have not been.

• Henry Kissinger
• National Security Advisor and later Secretary of
  State in the Nixon administration

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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It
means character, and it means listening from time
to time.

• George W. Bush
• Current President of the United States