Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
BILL BRADLEYWhen you’re not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
More Bill Bradley Quotes
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Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
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Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
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We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.
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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
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Al Gore clearly has the vision… it’s a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
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The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That’s the beautiful heart of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for the group success.
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The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a Scout are like a compass. They can help you find your way through difficult and sometimes unchartered terrain.
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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
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We have to repair that trust … I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
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Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.
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For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don’t even know that they’re leaders.
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A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.
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I might lose because I wasn’t tall enough; I might lose because I wasn’t fast enough. But I wasn’t going to lose because I wasn’t ready.
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When you’re not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
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