W. Ryan Melson

“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