#ink

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off. ↗

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

#mentoring #questions #teaching #thinking #leadership

You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#negative-people #thinking-positive #life

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#everyday-life #life #love #movies #reading

Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life....My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#life

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#life #stop #thinking #truth #life

Life is difficult. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#life #living #mentation #purpose #purposeful

If you see the dragon fly, best you drink the flagon dry.” —Zarost ↗

— Greg Hamerton

#drinking #fantasy-books #fantasy-fiction #life-lessons #life

Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk. ↗

— Eugene Mirman

#humor #philosophy #humor

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it. ↗

— Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

#clinks #earth #eyes #fame #flee

But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly what's going to happen to them each day. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#life #life