Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.
Robin S. SharmaRead
Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.
Interpretation
Pursue your goals with determination while treating others with kindness and respect.
This quote emphasizes the importance of being assertive and relentless in the pursuit of one's ambitions, likening that drive to a warrior. At the same time, it underscores the necessity of compassion, generosity, and love towards others, suggesting that true strength lies not only in achieving personal goals but also in how one treats those around them.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a motivational speech about pursuing dreams while being compassionate.
Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.
If there are only three guys at the top of the organization handling things, it's the definition of a bankrupt company. In creating leaders without titles, we are going to have organizations with people at the helm putting forth their best.
The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.
People want to be a part of an organization that lets them be fully alive and bring their gifts to work. People really do want to be engaged and feel proud of their contribution.
The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure.
We do become our conversations. We really will become our associations.
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.
You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.
If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.
You can't lose your concentration at all. And there are times when you're on the stage, and you've got silence, which is wonderful, but you have to have the confidence to make you realize it's fine. You can't suddenly wobble and think, 'They're not interested.'
I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
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