Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. — Eric Hoffer. American moral and social conservative philosopher (1902–1983)
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.