“Appreciate when things go awry. It makes for a better story to share later.”
—Simon Sinek.
G D Anderson: Feminism
“Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”
—G.D. Anderson.
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James Baldwin: Deal with pain
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
—James Baldwin.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr: Not a crystal
“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of living thought and changes from day to day as does the air around us.”
—-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Socrates: Useless studies
“I am amused, I said, at your fear of the world, which makes you guard against the appliance of insisting upon useless studies; and I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which, when by other pursuits lost and dimmed, is by there purified and re–illuminated and is more precious for then ten thousand bodily eye, for by it alone is truth seen.”
— Socrates.
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Cheryl James: Come out of the box
“Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.”
—Cheryl James.
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Henry Million: Common, ordinary, everyday achievement
“Most of us are not interested in greatness, just in common, ordinary, everyday achievement.”
—-Henry Million.
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Simon Sinek: Worthy rival
“Traditional competition forces us to take on an attitude of winning; a Worthy Rival inspires us to take on an attitude of improvement.”
~ Simon Sinek.
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Tammy Faye Baker: Religious people
“Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.”
—Tammy Faye Baker.
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Benjamin Franklin: Work
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”
—Benjamin Franklin.
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Francis Atterbury: Falsity of supposition
“The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.”
—Francis Atterbury.
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Simon Sinek: Recognize
“Leaders don’t look for recognition from others. Leaders look for others to recognize.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Penn Jillette: Wicked ugly
“For 50 million years our biggest problems were too few calories, too little information. For about 50 years our biggest problem has been too many calories, too much information. We have to adjust, and I believe we will really fast. I also believe it will be wicked ugly while we’re adjusting.”
—-Penn Jillette.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen: Lips continuously moving
“Like a snake who must keep swimming to live, a politician must keep his lips continuously moving.”
—Viet Thanh Nguyen.
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Rosa Luxemburg: No freedom at all
“Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party – though they are quite numerous – is no freedom at all.”
—Rosa Luxemburg.
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Simon Sinek: Inspired
“A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Julia Cameron: Creativity
‘Creativity — like human life itself — begins in darkness. We need to acknowledge this. All too often, we think only in terms of light: “And then the lightbulb went on and I got it!” It is true that insights may come to us as flashes. It is true that some of these flashes may be blinding. It is, however, also true that such bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.’
—Julia Cameron.
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William Wordsworth: Wiser mind
“The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.”
—William Wordsworth.
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Simon Sinek: New ideas
“New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Brotherhood that spans continents and generations
“And no matter where you go or what you do, you will be inextricably bound to a brotherhood that spans continents and generations. Every hearth that bears the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor is home, every arm being that brand brings a helping hand; every fellow Marine is your brother. And that will never change, as as you live.”
—Drill Instructor.
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Edmund Waller: Discreetly blot
“Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.”
—Edmund Waller.
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Simon Sinek: Trust
“Trust doesn’t develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.”
—Simon Sinek.
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John Irving: Religious freedom
“Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.”
—John Irving.
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Lt Gen H H Driessnack: Control
“Don’t let the tool control the hand that uses it.”
—Lt Gen H. H. Driessnack.
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Jon Bon Jovi: Very different
“There are those who advocate, and those who do. I’m not trying to slight my peers, but there is a difference between using a soapbox and actually getting your hands dirty. I’ve spent not only years and millions of dollars but hours and hours and hours of my time doing what I do, and that’s very different from what anyone else is doing.”
—Jon Bon Jovi.
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Simon Sinek: Assign
“Assign tasks and people will work for you. Assign responsibility and people will work for themselves.”
—Simon Sinek.
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Richard Wilbur: Opposite of two
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”
—Richard Wilbur.
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Warren Beatty: Advantages of California
“To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California – mightily.”
—Warren Beatty.
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Seth Godin: Situation
“Problems have solutions. That’s what makes them problems. A problem without a solution isn’t a problem, it’s simply a situation.”
—Seth Godin.
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T Cuyler Young: Technology
“We pretend that technology, our technology, is something of a life force, a will, and a thrust of its own, on which we can blame all, with which we can explain all, and is the end by means of which we can excuse ourselves.”
—T. Cuyler Young.
