A large ocean liner

A large ocean liner
A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out
  

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Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They
Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
A half truth is a whole lie.
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.
I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.
Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.