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The lesson here is clear: If you want people to understand that you value their contributions and that they are important, the recognition and praise you provide must have meaning that is specific to each individual. ↗

— Tom Rath

#inspirational #business

followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope ↗

— Tom Rath

#leadership #business

What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time. ↗

— Tom Rath

#leadership #business

It's a joke in the zoo business, a weary joke, that the paperwork involved in trading a shrew weighs more than an elephant, that the paperwork involved in trading an elephant weighs more than a whale, and that you must never try to trade a whale, never. ↗

— Yann Martel

#paperwork #business

I am an expert swordsman. And I am skilled in the business of death. I take no pleasure in my skill. Simply, I am good at it. ↗

— Oliver Bowden

#haytham-kenway #kenway #oliver-bowden #business

Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#inspirational #business

Fear would have told the Wright brothers not to fly. Fear would have told Rosa Parks to change seats. Fear would have told Steve Jobs that people hate touchscreens. ↗

— Jon Acuff

#inspirational #non-fiction #business

Learning to pray doesn't offer us a less busy life; it offersus aless busy heart. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

#business

One of the common themes you will read in interview after interview is the call to keep fighting for your vision. This is a message to women directors, producers, writers—anyone who wants to work in the business. Your voice counts. Your vision matters. ↗

— Melissa Silverstein

#director #directors #documentaries #feminism #film

It was a strange business and it made a sad and curious impression on me; everything that had belonged to me in these earlier years of my life left me, was alien and lost to me. I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were discarded like badly fitting clothes. I parted from them without pain and all that remained was to wonder that I could have endured them so long. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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