#er

He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold by the hour, servants, you see, to his fancy. Among these people he was always self-confident and bold. They might talk, to be sure, and even have opinions of their own, but always he talked last and best. He was like a writer busy among the figures of his brain, a kind of tiny blue-eyed king he was, in a six-dollar room facing Washington Square in the city of New York. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#kingdom #servants #business

The 'dance of love' has different themes and moods, just like every relationship has its highs and lows. Enjoy the high moments and hang-on during the downtimes. The diverse range of emotions is the experience that builds you two. Your ability to perfectly switch between these moments and make the best out of the one you find yourself per time, proves that you are not only involved in the relationship like the chicken is in the business of making eggs but also very committed to it like the pig is in the business of making bacon. ↗

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

#dance #dance-of-love #downtimes #emotions #experience

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

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

— Paul E. Miller

#business

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental. ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#work #worship #business

I saw a moving sight the other morning before breakfast in a little hotel where I slept in the dusty fields. The young man of the house shot a little wolf called coyote in the early morning. The little heroic animal lay on the ground, with his big furry ears, and his clean white teeth, and his little cheerful body, but his little brave life was gone. It made me think how brave all living things are. Here little coyote was, without any clothes or house or books or anything, with nothing to pay his way with, and risking his life so cheerfully — and losing it — just to see if he could pick up a meal near the hotel. He was doing his coyote-business like a hero, and you must do your boy-business, and I my man-business bravely, too, or else we won't be worth as much as a little coyote. ↗

— William James

#business

If you want engagement, you must engage. ↗

— Karen Martin

#continuous-improvement #kaizen #lean #process-design #process-improvement