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“As the two-thousand-year-old saying goes, you can have eyes and still not see. But a hard life improves vision.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward

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“The single biggest challenge to any organization is the constant cloud of fear and doubt that swirls around the heads of the people involved. As a leader, your job is to hold fast to the big picture, to keep seeing in your mind’s eye, with crystal clarity, where it is you’re going—that place that right at this moment exists only in your mind’s eye. And to keep seeing that, even when nobody else does.

Especially when nobody else does.

Your people count on you to do this. It’s the biggest job you have.”
― Bob Burg and John David Mann, It's Not About You: A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business

tags: business, inspirational

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“You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: life

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“Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward

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“That was another thing people used to be able to do, which they can't do anymore: enjoy in their heads events which hadn't happened yet and might never occur. My mother was good at that. Someday my father would stop writing science fiction, and write something a whole lot of people wanted to read instead. And we would get a new house in a beautiful city, and nice clothes, and so on. She used to make me wonder why God had ever gone to all the trouble of creating reality.

Quoth Mandarax:

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!

- GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos

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