Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.
Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.'
I follow my father's philosphy; 'Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.'
You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.
Voting is a right that has been given to every American; however, as Christ followers, our votes should reflect our God.
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.
Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.
I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.
Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.
Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life.
If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution.
