The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. From LearnThat.org. [Warren G. Bennis.]
Our myth is the Nation, our myth is the greatness of the Nation!. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Wall Street Republicans Form ‘Action Tank’ To Push Corporate Agenda] Reference
I suspect that you've rediscovered what I call the myth of ground. From Wordnik.com. [CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries] Reference
Immersing oneself in the myth is a way of confirming this universal desire. From Wordnik.com. [Juliet has a history, a home and a inexplicable draw] Reference
"That certainly could harm the industry if this myth is allowed to perpetuate.". From Wordnik.com. [Campaigns Rap Wind Power as 'Failed Stimulus'] Reference
What she defines as "myth" is what I tend to think of as "stories" in a more general sense. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Scottish Fairies] Reference
And coming up, the president is talking about what he calls the myth about his health care plan. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2009] Reference
You expanded that assertion to claim that the 'myth' is that tax increases cause revenue to increase. From Wordnik.com. [Economics vs. Populism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The arrests disproved what he described as the myth that police could not police themselves effectively. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Just ahead, Senator Byron Dorgan, author of "Take This Job & Ship It," on what he calls the myth of free trade. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2007] Reference
Still another myth is the so-called “generous offer” turned down by Palestinian President Arafat at Camp David in 2000. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Ehud Barak: Peace or Apartheid] Reference
Among the biggest battles the union is fighting is what it calls the myth that federal workers are overpaid and don't work hard. From Wordnik.com. [Federal workers campaign against proposed cuts] Reference
Lotke wrote a report earlier this year aimed at debunking what he calls the myth that the United States is a conservative country. From Wordnik.com. [Macleans.ca] Reference
The word myth comes from the Greek word "mythos.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Reed, source of terrestrial life; boat in Japanese myth. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
The myth is that marketers think these people actually care. From Wordnik.com. [Squid soup, part I: The Myth of the Product Adoption Lifecycle] Reference
For most people today, the word myth means fiction or fallacy. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I hate to see the word myth debased the way it is in the headline. From Wordnik.com. [GOP Rep. Musgrave Repeats China-Cuba Oil Myth] Reference
He shows up at various pages devoted to dragons in myth and folklore. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons and turkeys and midgets, oh my!] Reference
Bit simply thinks the government creation myth is not very good science. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Home-school textbook market dominated by books skeptical of evolution.] Reference
A clearer case of the scientific myth is THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2)] Reference
The myth is that Lucas has had all nine episodes in mind all along ... but he doesn't. From Wordnik.com. [GLWI] Reference
The modern myth is that Parker was the first to use a 100 point scale to evaluate wine. From Wordnik.com. [Tasting Bordeaux 2005 blind with Robert Parker | Dr Vino's wine blog] Reference
One myth is that "someone" maintains a huge database of all life insurance policies sold. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Danise: Cracking open the biggest life insurance myths] Reference
Medusa's snaky head, the sex-strike in Lysistrata, Medea's fury in Greek myth and tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [Erica Jong: Seeing Sexism] Reference
Well atleast the myth is wise enough to try the pretend I am not being talking to gambit …. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Right Wing Reacts With Rage: Health Care Will ‘Do More Damage Than 9/11,’ ‘Freedom Has Been Assaulted’] Reference
The lone cowboy myth is especially warped when it is applied to families with small children. From Wordnik.com. [Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: "Family Values"] Reference
Though the FDR myth is also not based on reality, so it is par for the course with these clowns. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » DC Media Scoff At President Obama’s Substantive And Detailed Answer To Health Care Question] Reference
Another myth is that the movement for free software is fighting for the abolition of these laws. From Wordnik.com. [Entrepreneurs And "Intellectual Property"] Reference
What's also tremendously cool about Norse myth is the way things are both symbolically and literally their names. From Wordnik.com. [she sewed my new blue jeans] Reference
I guess that old myth is true: every one in a blue moon, something somewhat intelligent and sane comes out of a republicans mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Graham says GOP should stop demonizing climate change: You’re risking ‘your party’s future with younger people.’] Reference
"new" historians, attacks what he calls the myth that the Jews are the descendants of the Hebrews, exiled from the kingdom of Judea. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference
The only failing of Mr. Wicker’s book is that he doesn’t acknowledge — or even mention — what I call the myth of McCarthyism. From Wordnik.com. [Harmful Man, Harmful Myth: The Misplaced Liberal Concern] Reference
Yet by linking them, director Peter Sellars pays homage to their origins in Greek myth and drama, and religious devotion respectively. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
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