#ship

The Director's Role: You are the obstetrician. You are not the parent of this child we call the play. You are present at its birth for clinical reasons, like a doctor or midwife. Your job most of the time is simply to do no harm. When something does go wrong, however, your awareness that something is awry--and your clinical intervention to correct it--can determine whether the child will thrive or suffer, live or die. ↗

— Frank Hauser

#directing #theatre #leadership

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

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#leadership

People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it. ↗

— Howard Schultz

#leadership #leadership

I´m just not sending out the right vibe lately. Perhaps the fact that I wear stained sweatpants and free T-shirts is holding me back. I just can´t seem to get back into the intelligent-slut-for-hire outfits that lure men; even shoes with laces evade me. Plus my hair is Fran Lebowitz-esque. I think my eyes are getting closer together. I don´t know. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing about for hundreds of years, but she also knew, from those same books, that there were people who never recover form it, ones who go on through life beset by a dim and painful longing. ↗

— Sarah Dunn

#life

You can succeed beyond the past, but not beyond your belief ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#leadership

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#leadership

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it. ↗

— Eugene Victor Debs

#leadership #leadership

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down." (CBS 60 Minutes interview, March 6, 1983) ↗

— Grace Murray Hopper

#loyalty #leadership