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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#ahead #close #enough #far #leaders

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need. ↗

— Ann Richards

#motivational #motivational

I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#pushing-the-limits #running #motivational

I would rather live short and right then long and wrong. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #conferences #john-paul-warren #john-warren #motivational

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#behave #demean #easily #heroes #motives

...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead. ↗

— William H. Gass

#literary-criticism #the-recognitions #twentieth-century #art

The only way of life satisfying the need of all times must be motivated by incentives and rewards – materially, morally and spiritually because motivation for work is produced by incentives and rewards only, an aspect built into the fundamental specification of human nature itself. Any prescription not recognising this important aspect of life is bound to fail in the life-styles of human beings. ↗

— Mohammed Ali Muhiyaddin

#communism #incentives #materialism #religion #life

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#comparison #intolerance #itself #other #people

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#box #breakfast #breakfast cereal #candidates #cereal

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#good #great #great love #had #haven