Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
– Salvador Dali
Tag Archives: self awareness
The first…
The first act of leadership is coming to grips with yourself, who you are, where you are, and what is of value to you, and shaping yourself by acts of conscious will into what you want to become.
– Fenwick English
If you…
If you think that you are too small to make a difference try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito
– African proverb
Make yourself…
Make yourself a better person before trying to make others better
– Yao Chen
If knowing…
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
– Warren G Bennis
Your work…
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
– Steve Jobs
Knowing…
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people
– Carl Jung
I never…
I never had much faith in leaders. I am willing to be charged with almost anything, rather than to be charged with being a leader. I am suspicious of leaders, and especially of the intellectual variety. Give me the rank and file every day in the week. If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and mis-representatives of the masses — you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
– Eugene V. Debs
Solve someone’s…
Solve someone’s problems and you produce a follower. Teach someone to solve their own problems and you produce a leader.
– Alexander Den Heijer
Life is…
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
– Charles M. Shulz
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