#i

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing. ↗

— David Leavitt

#bitter #childlike #exhausted #figure #having

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader. ↗

— Howard Schultz

#leadership #leadership

My older siblings and I all work in 'the industry'. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work. ↗

— Lily Collins

#i #industry #make #obviously #older

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#also #certain #exclusively #generalizations #human

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God. ↗

— Arthur Young

#called #could #god #life #manifestation

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#dull #going #great #idea #illusion

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#action #capacity #exists #mind #superior

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#had #having #me #parents #solace

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. ↗

— Edward Young

#joys #remedies #superior #weak #wisdom

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready- Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#humor