Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of accountability and the need for leaders to be challenged to rise to the occasion.
In this quote, Franklin D. Roosevelt acknowledges the power of persuasion and the role of pressure in governance. He invites others to hold him accountable, suggesting that true leadership involves not only decision-making but also being responsive to the demands and expectations of the public, thus fostering a collaborative atmosphere where leaders are pushed to do their best.
In practice
In a team meeting to discuss project goals and challenges.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.
The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who haven't yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight.
You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions.
I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.
In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
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