Most people think leadership is about being in charge. Most people think leadership is about having all the answers and being the most intelligent person or the most qualified person in the room. The irony is that it is the complete opposite. Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible. Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.
You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.
As a leader you provide for people only what they can't provide for themselves.
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
My job is to make the players I'm playing with better. I'm going to be the cat that does a lof of the ‘other things.'
I always wanted to take the blame. I've always been apologetic for other people's faults.
I've been blessed by learning certain principles and values that transformed my life and enabled me to accomplish more than I really had the ability to do or ever dream possible. And so I decided that I wanted to give as many other people as possible the opportunity to learn these ideas and transform their lives as I had.
I'm a quarterback. I don't need to score the touchdown. I just need to spot the pass.
I'm a professor - there should be some lessons learned - and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.
Nobody would have me in their laboratory for five minutes. I couldn't cut up a frog, and I certainly couldn't perform surgery. I'm better at making it possible for other people.
The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.
I'm not particularly good at anything. I'm not an incredible guitarist or piano player or songwriter. I think what I do is, when I notice someone is really good at something, I try to get that out of them.
I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]
I couldn't cut up a frog, and I certainly couldn't perform surgery. I'm better at making it possible for other people.
