“You know, it's funny; when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.”
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“When you are connected to an institution with that strong a name, people use it for a shortcut to understanding who you are, and if you’re not careful, you use it as a shortcut too. Taking on the shape of that name itself over time.”
― Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
― Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
“I think there are people that help you become the person you end up being, and you can be grateful for them, even if they were never meant to be in your life forever.”
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“It is easier to be cruel, or unfair, to people in groups and in the abstract; harder to do so toward a specific person in your midst, especially if you know them already.”
― Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
― Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
“For purpose-driven people, this is the conundrum of client-service work: to perform at your best, you must learn how to care about something because you are hired to do so. For some, this is not a problem at all. A great lawyer or consultant can identify so closely with the client, or so strongly desire to be good at the job, or be so well compensated, that her purposes and interests and those of the client become one. But for others, work can only be meaningful if its fundamental purpose is in things that would matter even if no one would pay you to care about them.”
― Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
― Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
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