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“If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.”
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.”
― Doctor Glas
― Doctor Glas
“The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.”
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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