“The role of a leader is not to come up with all the great ideas. The role of a leader is to create an environment in which great ideas can happen.”
Source: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
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Kenneth Griffin (1968) American hedge fund manager
Video commentary featured on website of the Chicago Public Education Fund http://www.cpef.org/nm_video.htm#
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
The Second Declaration of Havana (1962)
“The role of the artist is to create an Anti-environment as a means of perception and adjustment.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 31
Don Soderquist (1934–2016)
Don Soderquist “ The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company https://books.google.com/books?id=mIxwVLXdyjQC&lpg=PR9&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q=Don%20Soderquist&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 21-22. <br class="br">On Having a Personal Mission and Vision
Ferdinand de Saussure book Course in General Linguistics
Source: Cours de linguistique générale (1916), p. 112
Context: The characteristic role of language with respect to thought is not to create a material phonic means for expressing ideas but to serve as a link between thought and sound, under conditions that of necessity bring about the reciprocal delimitations of units. Thought, chaotic by nature, has to become ordered in the process of its decomposition. Neither are thoughts given material form nor are sounds transformed into mental entities; the somewhat mysterious fact is rather that "thought-sound" implies division, and that language works out its units while taking shape between two shapeless masses. Visualize the air in contact with a sheet of water; if the atmospheric pressure changes, the surface of the water will be broken up into a series of divisions, waves; the waves resemble the union or coupling of thought with phonic substance.
“A great idea invariably creates as many problems as it solves: that is a sign of its greatness.”
Herbert Dingle (1890–1978) British astronomer
page 63 https://books.google.com/books?id=hwpKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA63 <br class="br">Relativity for All, London, 1922
“Great necessities call forth great leaders.”
Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)
This seems to first appear in Why Leaders Can't Lead : The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues (1989) by Warren G. Bennis, p. 159, where it is cited as being from a letter to Thomas Jefferson, but it might be a misquote of "Great necessities call out great virtues" stated in a letter to her son John Quincy Adams (19 January 1780)
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