Alex Mayfield

“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.

“Millennial guys seemed, to the sociologists and anthropologists who studied them, to have attitudes toward women that portended a new era of equity—especially at work. But the reality was, indeed, far more complicated. Later surveys and studies would suggest that Millennial men as a whole turned out to be as “traditional,” and even less egalitarian, in their attitudes towards gender as their fathers—which made experts eventually posit that growing up with fathers impacted by gender masculinity crisis made them more, not less, resistant to gender equality.”
― Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

“You are not made out of needs, you are made out of your dreams and desires.”
― Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

“But before I go, I want you to promise me something.” She didn’t wait for him to agree. “If you love someone, tell them. Tell them every day. Never let them forget. And if they go away for a while, never forget them. They can come back, Jack. They can come back.”
― David Sodergren, The Haar