Zainab Ebrahimi > Zainab's Quotes

“neuroscientist Antonio Damasio reminds us, “We are not necessarily thinking machines. We are feeling machines that think.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“Feeding people half-truths or bullshit to make them feel better (which is almost always about making ourselves feel more comfortable) is unkind”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“Leaders must either invest a reasonable amount of time attending to fears and feelings, or squander an unreasonable amount of time trying to manage ineffective and unproductive behavior.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“So often, when someone is in pain, we’re afraid to say, “Yes, this hurts. Yes, this is a big deal. Yes, this sucks.” We think our job is to make things better, so we minimize the pain.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“To opt out of conversations about privilege and oppression because they make you uncomfortable is the epitome of privilege.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“The level of collective courage in an organization is the absolute best predictor of that organization’s ability to be successful”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“Romantic idea of love: he has found the right person; he has opened his heart to her; and he has been accepted. But he is, of course, nowhere yet. He and Kirsten will marry, they will suffer, they will frequently worry about money, they will have a girl first, then a boy, one of them will have an affair, there will be passages of boredom, they’ll sometimes want to murder one another and on a few occasions to kill themselves. This will be the real love story.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“Love means admiration for qualities in the lover that promise to correct our weaknesses and imbalances; love is a search for completion.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“We seem unwilling to allow for the possibility that the glory of our species may lie not only in the launching of satellites, the founding of companies, and the manufacturing of miraculously thin semiconductors but also in an ability—even if it is widely distributed among billions—to spoon yogurt into small mouths, find missing socks, clean toilets, deal with tantrums, and wipe congealed things off tables.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

“The highest expression of yourself is doing what you want to do how you want to do it—and being as wildly you as possible while you do.”
― Maxie McCoy, You're Not Lost: An Inspired Action Plan for Finding Your Own Way

“This “wrong” place is telling you everything you need to know about yourself to get into the right one.”
― Maxie McCoy, You're Not Lost: An Inspired Action Plan for Finding Your Own Way

“Trusting the process is core to trusting yourself.”
― Maxie McCoy, You're Not Lost: An Inspired Action Plan for Finding Your Own Way

“Busy” is complete bullshit, and if you distract yourself with it, you miss the personal discovery that occurs during your ascent.”
― Maxie McCoy, You're Not Lost: An Inspired Action Plan for Finding Your Own Way

“Fear is not something that goes away. It’s not something that even diminishes, really. Rather, it stays. You can simply become better and better at hearing it without listening.”
― Maxie McCoy, You're Not Lost: An Inspired Action Plan for Finding Your Own Way

“Because when you slow down to feel your feelings instead of running to escape them, you allow the things you really care about, the truth of what excites and energizes you, to catch up, to show themselves, to present.”
― Maxie McCoy, You're Not Lost: An Inspired Action Plan for Finding Your Own Way

“The goal isn’t to be fearless. The goal is to keep fear from running the show.”
― Maxie McCoy, You're Not Lost: An Inspired Action Plan for Finding Your Own Way

“No matter how many pep talks someone gives you or how much inspiration you read on the internet, there’s only one voice that truly matters: yours. Because no matter what’s happening in your life, the only person in your head is you. There is no one else who can control your thoughts but you. No one else’s positive words matter if you’re regularly and continually ripping yourself apart with negative chatter.”
― Maxie McCoy, You're Not Lost: An Inspired Action Plan for Finding Your Own Way

“That then will never come. Because there’s absolutely nothing that needs to change about you in order to find your way.”
― Maxie McCoy, You're Not Lost: An Inspired Action Plan for Finding Your Own Way

“Work every damn day to be the highest possible expression of yourself.”
― Maxie McCoy, You're Not Lost: An Inspired Action Plan for Finding Your Own Way

“Being exactly who you are is a powerful energy force.”
― Maxie McCoy, You're Not Lost: An Inspired Action Plan for Finding Your Own Way

“There is one quality that sets truly great managers apart from the rest: they discover what is unique about each person and then capitalize on it,”
― Julie Zhuo, The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You