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Richard Nelson Bolles: Firm ground to stand on
“I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you’ve lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.” —Richard Nelson Bolles.
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H Jackson Brown Jr: Find a job you like
“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.” —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Thomas A Edison: Hustle while you wait
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” —Thomas A. Edison.
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Gustave Flaubert: Violent and original in work
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” —Gustave Flaubert.
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Thomas A Edison: Seeming to do
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” —Thomas A. Edison.
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Irvin S Cobb: Sport is hard work
“As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.” —Irvin S. Cobb.
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Thomas Fuller: Difficult before they’re easy
“All things are difficult before they are easy.” —Thomas Fuller.
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Carla Bruni: Opinions
“But I’m very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don’t really believe what it says about other people.” —Carla Bruni.
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Daisaku Ikeda: Trust
“Trust is difficult to earn and it is easily lost—the trust built over a decade can be shattered in an instant by one offhanded remark or deed. A person who is not swayed from their chosen path, even during the most trying times, will ultimately find that he or she is trusted by all.” —Daisaku…
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Isla Fisher: False idea of beauty
“Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.” —Isla Fisher.
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Shirish Kunder: Fear
“Fear is a weapon used by bullies who fail to command your respect.” —Shirish Kunder.
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Harry Golden: Hard work
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” —Harry Golden.
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Laurence J Peter: Level of incompetence
“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.” —Laurence J. Peter.
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Kahlil Gibran: Love made visible
“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.” —Kahlil Gibran.
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Aristotle: Pleasure and perfection
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” —Aristotle.
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Howard Newton: How well you did it
“People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it.” —Howard Newton.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: One undivided and indivisible family
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul. –Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948).
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Shane Parrish: Efficiency and environments
“Efficiency is great in an unchanging environment, but to expect an environment to remain static is unrealistic. Environments change all the time. When workplaces value efficiency in a changing environment, they become fragile.” —Shane Parrish.
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Martin Fowler: In such a way
“If you can get today’s work done today, but you do it in such a way that you can’t possibly get tomorrow’s work done tomorrow, then you lose.” —Martin Fowler.
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Buddy Holly: Kind of music
“If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him ‘pop.’ Don’t tell him ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ or they won’t even let you in the hotel.” —Buddy Holly.
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James B Jordan: Understanding the times
“Understanding the times means understanding the course of history and civilization, as well as understanding the present situation. If we understand how God guides the development of human history, we can begin to understand the therapies needed to correct the problems of our times.” —James B. Jordan.
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Linda Ronstadt: Delicate
“Men are very delicate. They don’t like being rejected.” —Linda Ronstadt.
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Nicole Wallace: Life in politics
“A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalty and honesty.” —Nicole Wallace.
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Sidney Greenberg: Firm foundation
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” —Sidney Greenberg.
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Oscar Wilde: Immoral books
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. – Oscar Wilde.
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Pablo Casals: Love of man
“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.” —Pablo Casals, cellist and composer.
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Eckhart Tolle: Enlightened teacher
“If you are drawn to an enlightened teacher, it is because there is already enough presence in you to recognize presence in another.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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Naomi Campbell: Feeling passionate
“Feeling passionate about something doesn’t mean you have to be angry.” —Naomi Campbell.
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Dalai Lama XIV: Three factors
“The three factors that seem to have the greatest influence on increasing our happiness are our ability to reframe our situation more positively, our ability to experience gratitude, and our choice to be kind and generous.” ― Dalai Lama XIV.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: One indivisible whole
“One cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.” –Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948).
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Evelyn Waugh: Inspired when inventing horrors
“The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a heaven that it shows itself cloddish.” –-Evelyn Waugh, novelist (1903-1966).
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James Albert Michener: Not because the light fails to shine
“An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.” —James Albert Michener, novelist (1907-1997).
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We deceive ourselves
“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Steven Wright: Like an idiot
“There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.” —Steven Wright.
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Caitlyn Jenner: Gamble, cheat, lie and steal
“Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life – dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.” —Caitlyn Jenner.
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Michelle Visage: Presence always triumphs prefection
“IF YOU EVER FEEL YOURSELF GIVING IN TO YOUR INNER EVIL TWIN, KNOW THIS: In every battle, from lip-syncing to real life, presence always trumps perfection. Confidence trumps competence, so wear it like an accessory.” —Michelle Visage, The Diva Rules: Ditch the Drama, Find Your Strength, and Sparkle Your Way to the Top.
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Gìsele Bündchen: What marriage is
“When I’m weak, you can be strong; when I’m strong, you can be weak. That’s what I believe marriage is.” —Gìsele Bündchen.
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G K Chesterton: Fashion of Lazarus
“The Church is dying as usual; but the modern world is dead; and cannot be raised save in the fashion of Lazarus.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Squabble of anthropoid apes
“You can find it written in a book that I am a mere survival of a squabble of anthropoid apes; and perhaps I am. I am sure I have no objection. But my dog knows I am a man, and you will not find the meaning of that word written in any book as clearly…
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C S Lewis: Insatiable
“Envy is insatiable. The more you concede to it the more it will demand.” —C S Lewis.
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Jack Dorsey: Fundamentally recipient-controlled
“The first complaint we hear from everyone is: ‘Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother’s eating for lunch?’ But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled – you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down…
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Walter Bagehot: Also a spectacle
“An ambassador is not simply an agent, he is also a spectacle.” —Walter Bagehot.
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E W Djikstra: Without writing it
“A program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it.” —E.W Dijkstra.
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Simon Sinek: Next generation
“Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation.” —Simon Sinek.
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Shirish Kunder: Nationalism
“Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.” —Shirish Kunder.
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Simon Sinek: Trust
“Trust is a beautiful thing. It feels good to give it and it feels good when others give it to us.” —Simon Sinek.
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Chris Pratt: Sing obnoxiously loud in the shower
“My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.” —Chris Pratt.
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Jeremy Hardy: Ancestry
“For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.” —Jeremy…
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Shilpa Shetty: Yoga
“Yoga did not just help me with my body, I became fitter from within. It helped me to focus better. In the movies, we may look very glamourous and fit, but believe me, not many of us are actually fit from within. Yoga has helped me achieve that.” —Shilpa Shetty.
