When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.
Interpretation
Ending a relationship should be handled with care and respect.
This quote emphasizes the importance of approaching separations with dignity, advocating for a considerate and respectful process. By suggesting there should be 'no surprises' or 'humiliation,' it encourages individuals to communicate openly and manage the end of a relationship in a way that honors the shared experiences and mutual respect between parties.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a seminar on healthy relationship practices.
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.
A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
Why shouldn't gay people be allowed to be able to marry? Those against gay marriages say marriage should only be between a man and a woman. God, I of all people know that doesn't always work!
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters
I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in - particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth.
Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.
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