#ip

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it. ↗

— Jack Weatherford

#leadership

Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat. ↗

— Victor Ponta

#been #communist #democrat #dictatorship #ever

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. ↗

— Jane Porter

#brute #cudgel #dance #even #hold

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect. ↗

— Michael Porter

#companies #effect #operating #ripple #tremendous

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word. ↗

— Jon Postel

#consensus #corporate #documents #drafted #each

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#anticipating #bible #book #called #consider

And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing. ↗

— Kimberly Willis Holt

#death #friendship #vietnam-war #age

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#age

I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#both #character #draft #end #every

Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do. Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#leadership #humor