what good was faith if it demanded you be blind to what was around you? Shouldn’t faith withstand the storm around it? Was it even faith at all, if it crumbled so easily at the very first test?
“According to a Gallup poll conducted in 2013 called “State of the American Workplace,” when our bosses completely ignore us, 40 percent of us actively disengage from our work. If our bosses criticize us on a regular basis, 22 percent of us actively disengage. Meaning, even if we’re getting criticized, we are actually more engaged simply because we feel that at least someone is acknowledging that we exist!”
― Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
― Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
“Athletics in the classical world were inextricably linked to the virtue of self-mastery or self-control, (engkratia), the formation of an excellent disposition, which was the key virtue that separated the Greek from the Barbarian.”
― Beauty Matters: Creating a High Aesthetic in School Culture
― Beauty Matters: Creating a High Aesthetic in School Culture
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