James MacGregor Burns Quotes

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

James MacGregor Burns

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 3, 1918 - July 15, 2014

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LifeTreatAdviceRealReal Life

In the U.S., no one minds who I am, even if they saw me in 'Idol.' If I'm not doing any shows, my friends and I can just drive around the neighborhood and go to bars at night and chill till four in the morning.

Jessica Sanchez

MorningI AmMeNightDriveChill

The U.S. has many vulnerable targets around Iran, and its bases are within the range of the Guards' missiles. We have other capabilities as well, particularly when it comes to the support of Muslims for the Islamic republic.

John C. Stennis

SupportWithinWellRepublicRange

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

Johann Most

TrueCommunistsIdenticalAims

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

John Henrik Clarke

MindControlWorldNothingAnything

Heart's always been sort of like a cockroach. You can set off a bomb, and it'll still be alive underneath.

Ann Wilson

HeartYouAliveAlwaysOffBeen

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

Angela Merkel

DignityHumanHuman DignityCannot

I don't write happy songs.

Steve Kazee

HappyWriteSongs

Every time I've made a big decision in my life, it's been about letting in the possibility that maybe I could do something that I actually wanted to do and not letting people tell me that I should compromise or that it's too big of a dream.

Stephanie Savage

LifeTimeDecisionPeopleMeDream

The more people you help and the more value you create, the more your business will fly - and the quicker you'll win.

Robin S. Sharma

BusinessValuePeopleWinFlyHelp

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

Martin Short

PeopleSometimesPassionateObscure

Oliver Stone might think he's a guy who chews with his mouth open and yells at the hired help, but the George W. Bush I've spent nearly three hours with is a warm, funny, smart, engaged, compassionate, patriotic, decent and honorable man.

Mike Gallagher

FunnyManSmartThinkWarmHelp

Everyone who has ever asked for asylum in Slovakia was granted asylum if that person met the conditions. There was never any discrimination based on religion.

Miroslav Lajcak

ReligionDiscriminationPersonNever

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