#hi

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. ↗

— Richard Steele

#beauty #detestable #lack #modesty #nothing

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#being #developed #either #good #got

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#been #get #his #leader #people

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. ↗

— Arthur Murphy

#earth #face #most #thing #wit

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#destroys #except #exception #habitually #his

No man with a touch of heart disease should ever back his mounts. ↗

— Isaac Murphy

#disease #ever #heart #heart disease #his

Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#leadership

I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something. ↗

— Bill Murray

#could #day #done #each #go

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me. ↗

— George Murray

#been #considered #doing #entertained #even

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal. ↗

— Patrick Lencioni

#teamwork #leadership