A Quote by Paul Keating

The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.

Paul Keating

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Paul Keating
Australian - Politician
Born: January 18, 1944

By leadership, I mean taking complete responsibility for an organization's well-being and growth, and changing it for the better. Real leadership is not about prestige, power or status. It is about responsibility.

Robert L. Joss

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Mitt Romney

As the leadership team, we're taking bold and decisive action to evolve our organization and culture. This includes difficult steps, but they are necessary to position Microsoft for future growth and industry leadership.

Amy Hood

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

Dalai Lama

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

John C. Maxwell

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.

Rajneesh

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

Norman Foster

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

Norman Foster

One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

Marshall McLuhan

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

Robert Walser

Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs over the past forty years has ultimately been about defining myself. It has been fundamentally a psychological and existential journey.

Roger Ballen

The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.

Joan D. Chittister

I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.