A Quote by Eric Hoffer
The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.
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Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. Not in the Asperger's, autistic way depicted in the very fictional movie 'The Social' Network, the cognitive genius of exceptional ability. That's a modern definition that reduces the original meaning.
Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.
Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
If George Bush can't get along with Stephen Harper, he can't get along with any world leader. They're ideological cousins, if not twins.
You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of one color upon another. A mechanic might as well try to get along without tools.
I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.
As my family saw them, men were untrustworthy, weak, and selfish. Our mother taught us to get along without them, to get along without much of anything, and to live well and have fun anyway.
The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.
I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.
The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
When I look at a leader, I look at someone who is able to get exceptional performance out of others.
The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.
Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader - the common purpose. The best executives put this common purpose clearly before their group. While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others, the ability to make purpose articulate. And then that common purpose becomes the leader.
A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.
A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
I think the problem is, exceptional women will always succeed. But there are plenty of less-exceptional men who succeed. Until we get the less-exceptional women succeeding equally, we do not have full equality.
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