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A revolution is an act of viol...

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

James Burns 18 quotes

The ultimate test of practical...

The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

James Burns 18 quotes

Let us face reality. The frame...

Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that cannot be unified by mechanical linkages frail bridges(or) tinkering. If we are to turn the founders upside down we must directly confront the Constitutional structure they erected.

James Burns 18 quotes

Leadership, in short, is power...

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality,

James Burns 18 quotes

'Teachers'... treat students...

'Teachers'... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral values not by imposing their own moralities on them but by positing situations that pose hard moral choices and then encouraging conflict and debate. They seek to help students rise to higher stages of moral reasoning and hence to higher levels of principled judgment.

James Burns 18 quotes

Such leadership occurs when on...

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

James Burns 18 quotes

Leadership is one of the most ...

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

James Burns 18 quotes

Those who remember only that t...

Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennobling relationship - a great story!

James Burns 18 quotes

Leaders are not pale reflector...

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

James Burns 18 quotes

Behind, he hears Time's iron g...

Behind, he hears Time's iron gates close faintly,
He is now far from them;
For he has reached the city of the saintly,
The New Jerusalem.

James Burns 18 quotes

Divorced from ethics, leadersh...

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

James Burns 18 quotes

Woodrow Wilson called for lead...

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

James Burns 18 quotes

And let us mind, faint heart n...

And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.

James Burns 18 quotes

To elevate the goals of humank...

To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them.

James Burns 18 quotes

The practice of leadership is ...

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

James Burns 18 quotes

The best-laid schemes o' mice ...

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

James Burns 18 quotes

In real life, the most practic...

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

James Burns 18 quotes

I have been dying for twenty y...

I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.

James Burns 18 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....