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#1

“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
― Andy Warhol

tags: criticism

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#2

“I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: acceptance, bravery, courage, critic, critical, criticism, criticize, growing, growth, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, learning, life-and-living, life-quotes, self-knowledge, self-love

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#3

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#4

“Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.”
― Warren Bennis, Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

tags: dreamers, leadership

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#5

“Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.”
― Warren Bennis, Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

tags: leadership

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#6

“Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.”
― Warren Bennis, Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

tags: leadership, management

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#7

“You have to not care whether they approve of your or not,” she said when I called. “We do what we do to express ourselves, not to coincide with what others like. You’re lucky if they like anything you do.”
― Debby Bull, Blue Jelly: Love Lost & the Lessons of Canning

tags: self-expression

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#8

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”
― Peter Drucker

tags: ideas, innovation, new, old, project, work

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#9

“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
― Peter Drucker

tags: business

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#10

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”
― Peter Drucker

tags: leadership

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#11

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
― Peter F. Drucker

tags: business, decision-making, leadership

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#12

“People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”
― Peter F. Drucker

tags: management, risk, taking-risks

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#13

“Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation.”
― Peter Drucker

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#14

“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”
― Peter Drucker

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#15

“Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. ”
― Peter Drucker

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#16

“Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.”
― Peter F. Drucker

tags: leadership

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#17

“People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.”
― Peter Drucker

tags: leadership, management, strategic-planning

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#18

“I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”
― Bob Dylan

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#19

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos

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#20

“It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.”
― Benjamin Rush, A Memorial Containing Travels Through Life or Sundry Incidents in the Life of Dr Benjamin Rush

tags: forest, nature, society, woods

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#21

“A trail made of pine needles and thistles leads you into the green darkness. The canopy casts shadows on old oaks and dogwoods, and you think you can smell the sour breath of a witch behind you. The wind sighs like a sleeping girl, carrying her bittersweet dreams along the paths to attract any man willing to look for thorn-covered castles. A wolf darts between fallen, rotted wood; maybe he’s the one who can tell you where your heart is, how you’re still breathing.”
― Kimberly Karalius, Pocket Forest

tags: fairy-tale, forest, pocket-forest, whimsy, woods

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#22

“If a tree falls in the woods when no one is there, does it still make a noise? If a girl dies in the woods when no one is there, does anyone care? If no one knows I am here, do I even exist?”
― Lisa Jahn-Clough, Nothing But Blue

tags: forest, girl, tree, woods

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#23

“As soon as he had disappeared Deborah made for the trees fringing the lawn, and once in the shrouded wood felt herself safe.

She walked softly along the alleyway to the pool. The late sun sent shafts of light between the trees and onto the alleyway, and a myriad insects webbed their way in the beams, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder. But were they insects, wondered Deborah, or particles of dust, or even split fragments of light itself, beaten out and scattered by the sun?

It was very quiet. The woods were made for secrecy. They did not recognise her as the garden did. ("The Pool")”
― Daphne du Maurier, Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

tags: forestry, trees, woods

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#24

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
― William Blake

tags: imagination, inspiration, nature, trees

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#25

“Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

tags: 201, nature, rilke, space, trees

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#26

“We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

tags: beauty, speech, woods

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#27

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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#28

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

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#29

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: essential, happiness, love

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#30

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time

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