“Throughout his life, he would go on to produce a total of over 1200 quatrains, but even this represented just a small fraction of his work. Unfortunately, only 946 of them remain today. To show how he would seek to hide the real meaning behind his quatrains and predictions, we can look at the very first one that he produced. In it, you are able to learn how he goes about getting his visions in the first place, and you will see how even this is written in slightly guarded language.”
― Nostradamus: A Life from Beginning to End
― Nostradamus: A Life from Beginning to End
“The Single Biggest Reason Talented People Fail Many gifted, intelligent, charming, decent, charitable and hard-working people fail. One should go so far as to say that most such people fall short of their dreams or at least their potential, because of one reason: They failed to identify in themselves an Achilles’ heel that was common knowledge to other people.”
― Leadership is Hell: How to Manage Well - And Escape with your Soul
― Leadership is Hell: How to Manage Well - And Escape with your Soul
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.’ Albert Einstein”
― The Last Town
― The Last Town
“No; he is not a man that it is easy to draw out, though he can be communicative enough when the fancy seizes him.”
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“You need to let go of what you’re not good at. You may be charismatic, you may enjoy attention, and many people may enjoy you—but you may still be a mediocre manager, unskilled at follow-through, handling budgets or making tough decisions. Conversely, you may be great at the behind-the-scenes work, but you’ll never be the charming face of the organization. You now need to admit that it’s time to let some things go and hand them to others who can manage better.”
― Leadership is Hell: How to Manage Well - And Escape with your Soul
― Leadership is Hell: How to Manage Well - And Escape with your Soul
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