5 Quotes by Larry C. Spears

Antonio Machado (Spanish poet): Your walking, your footprints are the road and nothing else; there is no road, walker; You make the road by walking. 42-43

Robert Greenleaf: Caring for persons, the more able and the less able serving each other, is the basis for leadership, the rock upon which a good society is built. In small organizations, caring is largely person to person. But now, most caring is mediated through institutions—often large, complex, powerful, impersonal, and not always competent, sometimes corrupt. 175

Lee Gruenfield, novelist: It's human nature, this propensity in the face of the profound to be distracted by the trivial. 199

David S. Young, Chapter: Foresight, the Lead that the Leader Has. Through foresight we help congregations shape an incremental, measurable three-year plan. This is a very artistic process. I use a triangle and have the church members put their vision on the top, the strengths on the lower angle, and the need on the other angle. I put foresight in the center. 253

Henry Moore: You need to hold questions that cannot be fully completed or lived out within the span of your lifetime. 41