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Book cover for Johnny Cash: The Life
I kept thinking, ‘I’m not what they think I am. I don’t have all the answers. I’m not magic.’ But then you grow with it and you learn that it really doesn’t matter what other people think of you. You’re just one human being, and you’re ...more
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“Time is an unrenewable resource. You can’t get it back. All these things we’ve done to exchange information, to access information at our fingertips, have actually taken away our time for restoring the soul. You’re giving away your soul’s ability to be moved. If we’d spend more time in solitude, we’d value ourselves more.”
Raymond M. Kethledge, Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude

“I kept thinking, ‘I’m not what they think I am. I don’t have all the answers. I’m not magic.’ But then you grow with it and you learn that it really doesn’t matter what other people think of you. You’re just one human being, and you’re doing the best you can.”
Robert Hilburn, Johnny Cash: The Life

“When a gale strikes, a leader’s place is not belowdecks, but at the helm. He should strive to maintain a measure of detachment, both from the emotion of others around him and from the crisis itself, observing it clinically, dispassionately. And he must focus his thinking strictly on the decisions he needs to make, rather than on the consequences that might follow if his decisions are wrong. This detachment and focus will afford him as much isolation as circumstances allow, and they will make him resistant to the emotional tumult around him. From there, the leader must draw upon his inner strength.”
Raymond M. Kethledge, Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude

“Leadership, like fertilizer, contains elements that can be volatile or nurturing, depending on how one handles them.”
Raymond M. Kethledge, Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude

John McCain
“The moral values and integrity of our nation, and the long, difficult, fraught history of our efforts to uphold them at home and abroad, are the test of every American generation. Will we act in this world with respect for our founding conviction that all people have equal dignity in the eyes of God and should be accorded the same respect by the laws and governments of men? That is the most important question history ever asks of us.”
John McCain, The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations

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