Troy Wiseman > Troy's Quotes

“In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility”
― Joseph Conrad

“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.”
― Tom Rath

“Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to "fit in" so that they don't "stick out." This unwittingly stomps out individuality and encourages conformity, despite these parents' good intentions”
― Tom Rath, How Full Is Your Bucket?

“You cannot be anything you want to be — but you can be a lot more of who you already are.”
― Tom Rath, StrengthsFinder 2.0

“If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.”
― Tom Rath, Strengths Based Leadership

“If you focus on people’s weaknesses, they lose confidence.”
― Tom Rath, Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow

“At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become who we are not.”
― Tom Rath, StrengthsFinder 2.0

“There is nothing wrong with working on important individual milestones as long as you understand that they may not be the memories you treasure 25 years from now.”
― Tom Rath, Are You Fully Charged?: The 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life

“One challenge is that our ability to progress in our career is often determined by our effectiveness in responding to near-term needs. When high value is placed on solving these kinds of problems, it creates a culture in which leaders spend little or no time thinking about what could be done because they receive more accolades for simply doing what needs to be done.”
― Tom Rath, Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow

“Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered.”
― Tom Rath, Strengths Finder 2.0

“The pursuit of meaning — not happiness — is what makes life worthwhile.”
― Tom Rath, Are You Fully Charged?: The 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life

“Or as billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson said far more colorfully in an interview: “I don’t know why the tie was ever invented … now everyone looks the same and dresses the same. I often have a pair of scissors in my top pocket to go cutting people’s ties off. I do think that ties most likely are still inflicted on people because the bosses, they had to wear it for 40 years and when they get into positions of responsibility they’re damned if they’re going to not have the next generation suffer.”
― Tom Rath, Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes

“If you focus on people’s weaknesses, they lose confidence.” At a very basic level, it is hard for us to build self-confidence when we are focused on our weaknesses instead of our strengths.”
― Tom Rath, Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow

“The idealized leader is a superb communicator, a visionary thinker, a hands-on specialist in everything who can also get the right things done and follow through in fine detail on everything discussed. This leader does not exist.”
― BusinessNews Publishing, Summary: Strengths Based Leadership: Review and Analysis of Rath and Conchie's Book

“If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. While our society encourages us to be well-rounded, this approach inadvertently breeds mediocrity. Perhaps the greatest misconception of all is that of the well-rounded leader.”
― Tom Rath, Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow

“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to ‘be happy.’” It was this work that he used as he helped fellow prisoners in concentration camps.”
― Tom Rath, Are You Fully Charged?: The 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life

“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
― Françoise Sagan

“Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”
― Françoise Sagan

“Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.”
― Françoise Sagan, That Mad Ache