I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional intellectual experience that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.
A good government implies two things first fidelity to the objects of the government secondly a knowledge of the means by which those objects can be best attained.
Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.
Even if you're improvising the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.