quotes about Followership

last updated: November 28, 2023

Leadership requires followership and following is an act of trust, faith in the course of the leader, and that faith can be generated only if leaders act with integrity.
-- Lawrence M. Miller

Source : Lawrence M. Miller (1984). “American spirit: visions of a new corporate culture”, William Morrow & Company

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“I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.”
“I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.”
“The many faces of Collective Vision united by the mandalic eye-field suggest both expansion of consciousness and sharing of consciousness with other beings. The painting was based on a profoundly ego dissolving entheogenic mystical trance where I heard the words, 'Infinite Oneness... the Oneness should never forget the Infinitude and the Infinitude should never forget the Oneness...'”
“Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.”
“I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.”
“That's what poems are for, unlivable love.”

Source : Tess Gallagher (2006). “Dear Ghosts,: Poems”, Graywolf Press
“I fought Sugar Ray so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.”
“Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe that human beings fear silence - that is, the absence of constantly imposed direction. It is further believed that if we can be relieved of our fears, we will gain enough self-confidence to buy, eat, vote, fly, or simply go on living.”
“Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.”
“Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male "culture," in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our "society" are raving sex maniacs.”

Source : Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”