Guiding Quotes

The ability to connect and influence people, that's the job of a leader. And we're all leaders at some level.

Leadership does not mean domination

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

To lead comes from a Latin root which literally means to go out and die.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

My calling is to help people, to teach people, to share with people, until I die. I can never stop doing that. I can't, and I don't want to.

The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.

Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.

Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

I knew I wanted to coach at an early age.

To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler.

I haven't been a prototype mother.

As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

If you have methods without principles, you're going to have trouble. But if you develop methods based on principles, then you can make progress.

I have to be a teacher to my daughters.

I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.

I try to lead. I do not follow.

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.