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- There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.
- Phylicia Rashad
- If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
- Søren Kierkegaard
- We can spend our whole lives underachieving.
- Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
- Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
- Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
- Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.
- Brenda Ueland
- An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), "If"
- Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
- Charles William Dement
- Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
- Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
- The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
- Elaine Agather
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