Lynn Novick quotes

If you go in with a plan to make a point, and you know what your narrative is going to be already, in our mind, it's probably not worth telling.
-- Lynn Novick

#Mind

If you want to be a great leader, you have to put the interest of the country above your own. I would like to think that true leadership is not just telling people what they want to hear but helping them understand things, so you can explain to them what you think is best, and then they can judge you on that.
-- Lynn Novick

#Country #Thinking #Judging

I don't know but maybe it's fair to say that some of the responsibility lies with the American people and not just on the leaders.
-- Lynn Novick

#Lying #Responsibility #People

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...

Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.

The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.