"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been." ― Henry A. Kissinger Topic(s): Leadership More From Henry A. Kissinger "The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision." "No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time." "A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood." More In Leadership "Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater."― Mariska Hargitay "Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you’ll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I’m gone. But I know that the steps we’re taking are the right steps."― Jennifer M. Granholm "I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change."― Nicholas Sparks