Chuck Baker

“The converse lesson is that anyone who waits around to be authorized to speak up is never going to be a leader. It’s just not in their nature.”
― Adam Steltzner, The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation

“Statio—stopping to collect our hearts and minds before we begin something new—is the sign that we know we are about to do the will of God for the world. We know that we must not go at it when we are scattered of heart.”
― Joan D. Chittister, The Monastic Heart: 50 Simple Practices for a Contemplative and Fulfilling Life

“Cease to be a drudge. Seek to be an artist.”
― Mary McLeod Bethune, Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal

“It’s when freedom isn’t freedom at all that the confusion of time soon becomes a confusion of soul. It doesn’t take long to figure out that to have no fixed time for the major parts of life is to have bartered our freedom away.”
― Joan D. Chittister, The Monastic Heart: 50 Simple Practices for a Contemplative and Fulfilling Life