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Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#love #relationships #dating

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities. ↗

— Mark Batterson

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Accountable Authentic Collaborative Courageous Passionate Lifelong learner Welcomes feedback Biased toward action Solution oriented Change agent ↗

— Susan Scott

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Has a sense of humor. (Preferably warped.) We know who we are ↗

— Susan Scott

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Stop doing stuff that doesn’t help you reach your goals. It sounds simple, doesn’t it? It’s a shame almost no one does it. The most common way we work more and do less is by working on the wrong stuff. We spend our time doing, doing, doing, even if the doing has nothing to do with our goals, business, or life. ↗

— Stever Robbins

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A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are childlike, he is also a schemer, self-seeker, traitor, Judas, crook, and villain - in short, a man. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#child #man #business

Master Li, how are we going to murder a man who laughs at axes?" I asked. We are going to experiment, dear boy. Our first order of business will be to find a deranged alchemist, which should not be very difficult. China," said Master Li, "is overstocked with deranged alchemists. ↗

— Barry Hughart

#china #mad-scientists #business

Look for the positive qualities in your client's negative behavior. ↗

— Marilyn Suttle

#consulting #cusotmer-service #relationships #business

A fox passing through the wood on business of his own stopped several minutes and sniffed. 'Hobbits!' he thought. 'Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There's something mighty queer behind this.' He was quite right, but he never found out any more about it. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fox #hobbits #business

People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they’re not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we’ve fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have a name, a building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter. ↗

— Seth Godin

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