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1. “One highly successful venture capitalist who is regularly pitched by young entrepreneurs told me how frustrated he is by his colleagues’ failure to distinguish between good presentation skills and true leadership ability. “I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they’re good talkers, but they don’t have good ideas,” he said. “It’s so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent.”
Susan Cain
Venture Capital, Leadership Skills, Presentation Versus Substance, Authority, Professional Integrity
4. “Incidentally, am I alone in finding the expression "it turns out" to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected statements without the trouble of explaining what your source or authority actually is.” Douglas Adams Language, Communication, Authority, Humor, Rhetoric
11. “He who truly thinks for himself is like a monarch, in that he recognizes no one over him. His judgments, like the decisions of a monarch, arise directly from his own absolute power. He no more accepts authorities than a monarch does orders, and he acknowledges the validity of nothing he has not himself confirmed.” Arthur Schopenhauer Individuality, Autonomy, Thought, Authority, Self-governance
14. “The American police are involved in psychological warfare against those Americans who don't frighten them with imposing papers and threats. It's a Victorian police force; it peers out of musty windows and wants to inquire about everything, and can make crimes if the crimes don't exist to its satisfaction.” Jack Kerouac Police, Control, Authority, Criticism, Society
26. “All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.” Aldous Huxley Science, Orthodoxy, Questioning, Authority, Intellectual Freedom, Scientific Method
Authority Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “One highly successful venture capitalist who is regularly pitched by young entrepreneurs told me how frustrated he is by his colleagues’ failure to distinguish between good presentation skills and true leadership ability. “I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they’re good talkers, but they don’t have good ideas,” he said. “It’s so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent.”
Susan Cain Venture Capital, Leadership Skills, Presentation Versus Substance, Authority, Professional Integrity
4. “Incidentally, am I alone in finding the expression "it turns out" to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected statements without the trouble of explaining what your source or authority actually is.”
Douglas Adams Language, Communication, Authority, Humor, Rhetoric
11. “He who truly thinks for himself is like a monarch, in that he recognizes no one over him. His judgments, like the decisions of a monarch, arise directly from his own absolute power. He no more accepts authorities than a monarch does orders, and he acknowledges the validity of nothing he has not himself confirmed.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Individuality, Autonomy, Thought, Authority, Self-governance
14. “The American police are involved in psychological warfare against those Americans who don't frighten them with imposing papers and threats. It's a Victorian police force; it peers out of musty windows and wants to inquire about everything, and can make crimes if the crimes don't exist to its satisfaction.”
Jack Kerouac Police, Control, Authority, Criticism, Society
26. “All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.”
Aldous Huxley Science, Orthodoxy, Questioning, Authority, Intellectual Freedom, Scientific Method
