Mary Baker Eddy Quotes

The B Team can catalyse initiatives.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists.

It’s time for change. It’s time for someone smart enough to know, strong enough to do, sure enough to lead...

We cannot wait for the next Kennedy to set us on our path to the stars.

Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.

We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the key.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.

Politics is about moving forward, looking forward.

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head

In years that bring the philosophic mind.

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll?

Leaders never outgrow the need to change.

America, now is not the time for small plans.

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.

When all else fails, philosophize.

If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The doer moves; the critic stands still, and is passed by.

Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.

The world will not wait for us.

We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.