Macy Michele > Macy's Quotes

“It’s all a risk. Always. That’s not true, actually. The only exception: it’s a certainty that there’s risk. The safer you play your plans for the future, the riskier it actually is. That’s because the world is certainly, definitely, and more than possibly changing.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“In unstable times, growth comes from leaders who create change and engage their organizations, instead of from managers who push their employees to do more for less.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either. Part of leadership (a big part of it, actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time. Long enough that the critics realize that you're going to get there one way or another...so they follow.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“So great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it.

As opposed to a curious person who explores first then considers whether or not he wants to accept the ramifications.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
― Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsiblity on the West Coast.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Then, one night, her guest, Dr. Phil, said something that made me drop my fork: “The only difference between you and someone you envy is, you settled for less.” It”
― Megyn Kelly, Settle for More

“One time Yates and I were playing a game.

'Yates,' I said, 'you're going to win!'

'Maybe we could all win,' he said.

'No,' I said, 'we cannot all win. There is a winner and a loser. Losing is an incentive to keep practicing.”
― Megyn Kelly, Settle for More

“Money removes many stressors, but it has not changed my level of happiness, nor who I am. It changes how I spend my time. Right”
― Megyn Kelly, Settle for More

“Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Maturity is what happens when one learns to only give a fuck about what’s truly fuckworthy. As”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Instead of instilling a sense of the absolutes in abilities, says Professor Dweck, what we as parents and educators must engender is the sense that effort is the pivotal factor in achievement, that giving up, not a lack of ability, is usually the cause of failure.”
― Dana Suskind, Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain

“Option A is not available. so let's just kick the shit out of Option B."

Life is never perfect. We all live some form of Option B.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

“We plant the seeds of resilience in the ways we process negative events. After spending decades studying how people deal with setbacks, psychologist Martin Seligman found that three P’s can stunt recovery: (1) personalization—the belief that we are at fault; (2) pervasiveness—the belief that an event will affect all areas of our life; and (3) permanence—the belief that the aftershocks of the event will last forever. The three P’s play like the flip side of the pop song “Everything Is Awesome”—“everything is awful.” The loop in your head repeats, “It’s my fault this is awful. My whole life is awful. And it’s always going to be awful.” Hundreds”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“As we get older, we define happiness less in terms of excitement and more in terms of peacefulness. Reverend Veronica Goines sums this up as, “Peace is joy at rest, and joy is peace on its feet.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“I thought resilience was the capacity to endure pain, so I asked Adam how I could figure out how much I had. He explained that our amount of resilience isn’t fixed, so I should be asking instead how I could become resilient. Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity—and we can build it. It isn’t about having a backbone. It’s about strengthening the muscles around our backbone. Since”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard said that life can only be understood backward but it must be lived forward.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“counting our blessings doesn’t boost our confidence or our effort, but counting our contributions can.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“Teams that focus on learning from failure outperform those that don’t, but not everyone works in an organization that takes the long view.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“Adam has published five different studies demonstrating that meaningful work buffers against burnout.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.”
― Stephen M.R. Covey, The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today.”
― Stephen M.R. Covey, The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“A commit gives hope. Following through that commitment builds trust”
― Stephen M.R. Covey

“People dont care what you know until they know what you care”
― John C. Maxwell, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

“The bottom line in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You